Green Innovation toward Knowledge Sharing and Open Innovation in Indonesian SMIs

This research explores the crucial role of Small and Medium Industries (SMIs) in waste management and environmental sustainability. SMIs not only contribute to responsible waste management, but also have the potential to adopt sustainable business models with the concept of reduce, reuse, recycle. Global challenges to environmental sustainability require SMIs to produce environmentally friendly goods. Environmental innovation is key, and SMIs, as information center, can facilitate innovation through collaboration with various stakeholders. Knowledge Sharing is important in the context of open innovation, where SMIs share knowledge with industry, research institutions and others. Green innovation, which involves innovation to improve a company’s environmental performance, can be strengthened through effective knowledge Sharing. This research model finds a positive impact of open innovation on green innovation, as well as a positive impact of knowledge sharing on open innovation. These results strengthen the argument for supporting sustainable practices in SMIs, strengthening their contribution to sustainability and sustainable business competitiveness.