Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: María de Miguel Molina Author-Name: Elisabeth Merizalde Freire Author-Name: Angel Peiró Signes Author-Name: María del Val Segarra Oña Title: Análisis comparativo del fomento de la eco-innovación en las comunidades autónomas: políticas autonómicas más proactivas Abstract: Resumen:El objeto de este trabajo ha sido analizar las políticas autonómicas de fomento de la eco-innovación en España con el objetivo de conocer qué administraciones son más proactivas y ofrecen un mayor apoyo a las empresas que quieren aplicar procesos y fabricar productos sostenibles con el medio ambiente. Tras un análisis de la literatura se ha generado una clasificación para aplicar un benchmarking. Se han identificado las cinco comunidades autónomas más proactivas: Andalucía, País Vasco, Cataluña, Galicia y Castilla y León, siendo el País Vasco la más proactiva en fomento de la eco-innovación y sinergias entre los grupos de interés.Abstract:The purpose of this work has been to analyse the various regional policies to promote eco-innovation in Spain, in order to know which regional governments are more proactive and provide more support to those companies that want to implement processes and manufacture products environmentally sustainable. Firstly, we have analysed the different types of policies in the literature and, with the classification generated, we have applied a benchmarking to compare the different regions. To define the types of public policies linked to eco-innovation, we have followed the classification of Del Río González et al (2010), as we can see in the following Table. A. Environmental Policy A1. Direct tools Support environmental audits Help the implementation of environmental management systems/eco-certifications Support training and learning A2. Indirect tools Economic tools Legal responsibility tools Obligation to inform to the society B. Technological Policy: Tools to improve the technological capacity of the company Support R&D investments Support training and learning Enhance participation in networks Eco-innovation prizes Source: author’s own from Del Río González et al (2010). Along 2014, we have performed a content analysis (Berg y Lune, 2012) of secondary data from the official websites of the regional governments, to complete a benchmarking among the Regional Governments of Spain (Papaioannou et al., 2006). Furthermore, we gathered some data from public information given by the National Institute of Statistics of Spain (INE). After this comparative analysis, we have identified five regions that are the most proactive in promoting eco-innovation: Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia, Galicia and Castilla-León. We have compared the investments and expenses on environmental protection made by the companies located at these five regions (INE BASE, 2012 and 2014). However, as the number of companies is an important variable when comparing regions, we have used the averages ‘G/n’ (expenses/number of companies) and ‘I/n’ (investments/number of companies), as we show at the next Table. Regions Andalusia Basque Country Galicia C-L Catalonia nº companies 468.930 191.745 159.473 149.245 576.565 G/n 624,88 1074,46 1013,67 909,29 996,69 I/n 149,66 277,40 314,01 248,26 235,26 Source: author’s own from INE BASE, 2012 and 2014. We can observe that the region whose companies expend more in protecting the environment is the Basque Country, while the region whose companies invest more in protecting the environment is Galicia. Moreover, we have compared the critical variables that score these five regions the most proactive enhancing eco-innovation. Analysing the management model of each one, we conclude that the Basque Country is the one that we would take as a model of best practice in promoting eco-innovation. Following Kemp (2011) we can observed that the Basque Country is the region where there is a clear focus on pursuing a deeper relation among all the stakeholders. It has regional policies not only related to society, but also focused on the public-private partnerships. That is, it seeks a systemic objective (Suurs y Roelofs, 2014) to enhance all the stakeholders to participate in networks. However, some of its tools will need to be improved. For example, there is a lack in recognising the best eco-innovative companies by their effort. Moreover, it would be better to apply these tools distinguishing the differences between industry and services companies, as indicated by… (2014). Classification-JEL: R1 Keywords: Eco-Innovación, Políticas públicas, Benchmarking, Gestión Autonómica, Indicadores de sostenibilidad, Eco-innovation, Public policy, Regional Management, Sustainability Pages: 15-31 Volume: 3 Year: 2015 File-URL: http://www.revistaestudiosregionales.com/documentos/articulos/pdf-articulo-2477.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:rer:articu:v:3:y:2015:p:15-31