Increasingly, innovations aimed at sustainable development have occupied a top position in businesses' planning. Thus, this paper is aimed at contributing to the ongoing and current debate on sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) development. Despite SOI's ability to bring forward new opportunities for companies, it is accompanied by increased complexity, which, in turn, may require adjustments to innovation resources and capabilities to address the challenges that arise. Starting from a conceptual framework of requisite resources and capabilities for innovations, we test these resources and capabilities empirically in five leading SOI firms. The results show that innovative SOI firms need to strengthen their exploration and exploitation capabilities, including unifying the incorporation of internal and external resources with a clear orientation. In that sense, these adjustments are hypothesised to be more important than R&D expenditures, symbolic capital growth and knowledge formalisation.

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创新资源和能力是否足以使企业可持续发展？领先的可持续创新企业的实证研究

越来越多的针对可持续发展的创新在企​​业规划中占据了首位。因此，本文旨在为正在进行的和当前有关可持续发展导向的创新（SOI）发展的辩论做出贡献。尽管SOI能够为公司带来新的机遇，但随之而来的是复杂性的增加，这反过来又可能需要调整创新资源和能力以应对出现的挑战。从创新所需资源和能力的概念框架开始，我们在五家领先的SOI公司中对这些资源和能力进行了经验测试。结果表明，创新型SOI公司需要增强其勘探和开发能力，包括以明确的方向统一整合内部和外部资源。从这个意义上讲，这些调整被认为比研发支出，象征性资本增长和知识形式化更为重要。