To stay abreast of the dynamic market and technological environment, firms should improve their innovation and economic performance continuously. To cope with such requirements, companies often adopt an Open Innovation (OI) strategy. Among several possible OI strategies, co-patenting is a tool to develop innovation with more actors. Thus, companies leverage time by time their innovation [...]

The mounting pressure from governments and investors has imposed companies to think “green”, “sustainable” and be “social compliant”. In this paper, an investigation to understand the joint impact that Sustainable Oriented Innovation (SOI) and Open Innovation (OI) may have on companies’ performance is presented. In particular, the study aims to see if these practices, i.e. [...]