The establishment of broad-based networks, such as the Triple Helix, for innovation and sustainability is sufficiently corroborated. In this work we suggest that the information received from the Triple Helix has a significant and different impact on the objectives of sustainable innovation, depending on whether companies cooperate or not. To this end, an empirical analysis of a stratified sample of more than 5000 Spanish medium and high technology companies in 2010-2014-2015 was carried out. The results confirm that companies that do not cooperate place more importance on the information received from the Triple Helix to establish their sustainable innovation targets.

La innovación está relacionada con el crecimiento de las economías y de las empresas, y en un entorno cambiante como el actual, se presenta como una herramienta fundamental para conseguir ventajas competitivas. Esta investigación tiene por objetivo analizar la relación existente entre la capacidad de innovación de las empresas y la obtención de información de las mismas a través de la cooperación con competidores, proveedores, Universidades y otras instituciones públicas (Triple Hélice). En primer lugar se desarrolla una revisión bibliográfica de los conceptos relacionados para posteriormente, a través del método de ecuaciones estructurales, dar respuesta y aceptar la hipótesis propuesta que pone de manifiesto la relación existente entre los resultados de innovación de las empresas y la información obtenida de la Triple Hélice. La investigación se realiza con una muestra de empresas españolas, encuestadas por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), durante los años 2008-2010.

The new sustainability challenges faced by organisations require professionals who are adequately prepared to address them, placing universities under increasing responsibility to provide such education. While prior research has assessed sustainability competency programmes, it has largely remained confined to academic perspectives, overlooking the heterogeneous views of key stakeholders. This study aims to address this gap by applying stakeholder theory to examine differences in the importance assigned to sustainability competences by teaching staff, students, and employers in economics and business education. A sequential exploratory mixed-methods design was employed. First, a competence framework was developed and validated through a systematic literature review and qualitative inquiry (in-depth interviews and World Café sessions). Subsequently, a structured survey ( N = 535) was conducted and analysed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, followed by ANOVA/MANOVA to test inter-group differences. The findings reveal a taxonomy of sustainability competences structured around two dimensions: decisional/behavioural and emotional. Significant differences are observed among stakeholders: students assign lower importance to emotional competences, while employers attribute less importance to decision-making competences. These results have important theoretical and practical implications. Theoretically, they show that stakeholder differences reflect dimension-specific patterns of salience rather than overall levels of support. Practically, they provide guidance for universities in aligning sustainability education with labour market expectations. The originality of this study lies in integrating multiple stakeholder perspectives through a mixed-methods approach, offering a more comprehensive understanding than prior research focused primarily on academic viewpoints.

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