Subject(s)
Ethics and social responsibility
Secondary Title
Sustainability matters: Why and how corporate boards should become involved Research Report R814818118RR
Pages
71–78
Subject(s)
Economics, politics and business environment
Volume
10
Journal Pages
1–11
Subject(s)
Ethics and social responsibility; Marketing
Subject(s)
Strategy and general management; Technology, R&D management
Volume
3
Journal Pages
6–9
Subject(s)
Entrepreneurship; Technology, R&D management
Keyword(s)
innovation
Pages
48
Subject(s)
Human resources management/organizational behavior
Volume
4
Journal Pages
109–112
ISSN (Print)
1727-4192
Subject(s)
Ethics and social responsibility
Keyword(s)
Sustainability, corporate responsibility
Volume
2010–11
Journal Pages
28–31
Subject(s)
Ethics and social responsibility
Subject(s)
Finance, accounting and corporate governance
Volume
47
Journal Pages
2–3
ISSN (Online)
1613-964X
ISSN (Print)
0020-5346
Subject(s)
Ethics and social responsibility; Strategy and general management
Keyword(s)
Electricity supply industry, innovation, research, sustainability, productivity, ranking, R&D, climate performance, renewables, security of supply, patents, investment activities, transformation leaders, research leaders, dissemination leaders, hesitants, CEZ, Electricité de France (EDF), GDF-Suez, E.ON, RWE, Enel, Dong, Fortum, Statkraft Vattenfall, Iberdrola, Energias de Portugal (EDP), Axpo, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
The most widely used indicator to measure the degree of innovation of an industry is each individual company's actual expenses on research and development (R&D), aggregated across the whole industrial sector. With the ESMT Innovation Index 2010 – Electricity Supply Industry, we suggest expanding the notion of innovation beyond R&D indicators to achievements in productivity and sustainability. We test the methodology of the innovation index with a set of 15 large European electricity utilities and find that innovation activities have substantially increased over the last four years. A German and a French utility, RWE and EDF, lead the ranking within our sample.
Pages
45
ISSN (Print)
1866–4024