TITLE:
Management of Environmental Innovations in the Public Sector in Mexico: Energy, Water, Agroforestry, Biocultural, and Mining Cases1
AUTHORS:
Leonel Corona-Treviño
KEYWORDS:
Institutional Theory, Environmental Innovation, Public Sector, Metrics, Mexico
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.12 No.3,
May
29,
2024
ABSTRACT: The objective is to select some Public Services Innovations (PSI) focused on sustainable strategies implemented in Mexico from 2019 to 2024. Eleven PSI are highlighted and related to five cases of public strategies regarding energy sustainability, water, agroforestry, mining, and biocultural. These cases are analyzed, focusing on their characteristics: diagnosis, solutions, agents involved, impacts on public value, and user value. An in-depth analysis of each innovation’s process and considering the INDICO index (Innovation Diffusion Co-value) measures the capacity of each PSI and its impact on sustainability considering three axes: time, organization, and the behavior of the agents involved. The findings indicate that technical management and innovations have a favorable impact on sustainability. However, if environmental degradation is higher, longer-term approaches and more complex solutions are necessary. While these may have uncertain consequences, they provide elements to deter agents’ behaviors toward environmental degradation. The PSI as open innovation empowers communities by way of users or consumers of the public service, private firms, or other associations as co-producers. The intrapreneurship open innovation complements the top-down PSI policy.