DIGITAL-ENVIRONMENTAL CONVERGENCE IN INNOVATION MARKETING: NEW APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Autores

  • Olga Gonchar o.i.gonchar@ujis.in.ua
    Department of Economic Theory, Entrepreneurship and Trade, Khmelnytskyi National University, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3917-7586
  • Lesia Buiak l.buiak@wunu.edu.ua
    Department of Economic Cybernetics and Informatics, West Ukrainian National University, Ternopil, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7115-6497
  • Larysa Ptashchenko lara.ptah99@gmail.com
    Department of Economic Theory, Entrepreneurship and Trade, Khmelnytskyi National University, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1087-3566
  • Iryna Murenets ira.murenets@gmail.com
    Department of International Economic Relations and Business Security, Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Kharkiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9474-4374
  • Olha Kravets olga-kravets80@ukr.net
    Department of Marketing, Faculty of Management and Marketing, Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic University, Dnipro, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6661-0184

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31413/nat.v14i1.20593


Palavras-chave:

digital economy, digital marketing, green technologies, innovation marketing, marketing communications, marketing management, sustainable development

Resumo

Convergência digital-ambiental no marketing da inovação: novas abordagens para o desenvolvimento sustentável

 

RESUMO: Atualmente, a economia global está repensando as abordagens à inovação e ao desenvolvimento sustentável, para além da modernização tecnológica. Uma ferramenta automatizada tornou-se, em última análise, a tecnologia digital na gestão estratégica de novos conceitos, fator principal na formação de novos modelos de interação entre empresas, governo e sociedade. Nessas condições, a integração dos princípios da economia verde e das inovações digitais às atividades de marketing está se tornando não apenas uma tendência, mas um pré-requisito para a competitividade a longo prazo. O objetivo deste estudo é identificar padrões na transformação das abordagens estratégicas de inovação em marketing sob a influência da economia digital e das tecnologias verdes. O objeto de estudo são os processos de integração digital e atividade inovadora no âmbito das economias nacionais. A base metodológica fundamenta-se numa combinação de abordagens sistêmicas, comparativas, estatísticas, gráfico-analíticas e institucional-analíticas, que proporcionaram um estudo holístico das relações entre os índices de maturidade digital (DESI), a capacidade de inovação (GII) e a eficiência ambiental (EPI). Os resultados da análise quantitativa demonstram que, entre 2020 e 2024, a economia digital se consolidou como um dos principais motores do desenvolvimento sustentável. O índice DESI aumentou de 57,2 para 64,8 pontos (+13,3%), o GII de 32,1 para 36,4 (+13,4%), enquanto o EPI subiu para 43,5 pontos (+3,4%). Observou-se uma forte correlação positiva entre o nível de maturidade digital e o desempenho ambiental (r=0,69), o que indica a formação de um modelo de desenvolvimento integrado – “crescimento digital-verde”. A modelagem econométrica confirmou o impacto estatisticamente significativo das inovações digitais no desempenho ambiental (R²=0,81). O estudo também demonstrou que as empresas que utilizam ativamente sistemas analíticos, plataformas de big data e tecnologias de inteligência artificial em suas estratégias de marketing reduzem, em média, os custos operacionais em 12% e aumentam a fidelização de clientes em cerca de 15%. A relevância prática dos resultados obtidos reside na formulação de recomendações para o desenvolvimento de estratégias de marketing sustentáveis, digitais e ecológicas, focadas nos princípios ESG, no uso de análises inteligentes e no fortalecimento do posicionamento das empresas no ambiente digital global. As conclusões propostas podem servir de base científica para aprimorar as políticas estaduais de digitalização, os programas de desenvolvimento da inovação corporativa e as estratégias nacionais de crescimento sustentável.

Palavras-chave: marketing de inovação; marketing digital; comunicação de marketing; tecnologias verdes; economia digital; desenvolvimento sustentável; gestão de marketing.

 

ABSTRACT: At present, the global economy is reconsidering approaches to innovation and sustainable development apart from technological modernization. An automatic tool has eventually become a digital technology in the strategic management of new concepts as a main factor forming new models of interaction between business, government and society. In these conditions, the integration of the principles of the green economy and digital innovations into marketing activities is becoming not just a trend, but a prerequisite for long-term competitiveness. The purpose of the study is to identify patterns in the transformation of strategic approaches to marketing innovations under the influence of the digital economy and green technologies. The object is the processes of digital integration and innovation activity at the level of national economies. The methodological base is based on a combination of systemic, comparative, statistical, graph-analytical and institutional-analytical approaches, which provided a holistic study of the relationships between the digital maturity indices (DESI), innovation capacity (GII) and environmental efficiency (EPI). The results of the quantitative analysis show that during 2020–2024, the digital economy has become one of the leading drivers of sustainable development. The DESI index increased from 57.2 to 64.8 points (+13.3%), the GII from 32.1 to 36.4 (+13.4%), while the EPI increased to 43.5 points (+3.4%). A close positive relationship was found between the level of digital maturity and environmental performance (r=0.69), which indicates the formation of an integrated development model – “digital-green growth”. Econometric modeling confirmed the statistically significant impact of digital innovations on environmental performance (R²=0.81). The study also showed that companies that actively use analytical systems, big data platforms and artificial intelligence technologies in their marketing strategies achieve an average reduction in operating costs of 12% and an increase in customer loyalty by approximately 15%. The practical significance of the results obtained lies in the formulation of recommendations for the development of digital-ecological sustainable marketing strategies focused on ESG principles, the use of intelligent analytics and strengthening the positions of companies in the global digital environment. The proposed conclusions can serve as a scientific basis for improving state digitalization policy, corporate innovation development programs and national sustainable growth strategies.

Keywords: innovation marketing; digital marketing; marketing communications; green technologies; digital economy; sustainable development; marketing management.

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2026-02-23

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DIGITAL-ENVIRONMENTAL CONVERGENCE IN INNOVATION MARKETING: NEW APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. (2026). Nativa, 14(1), e20593. https://doi.org/10.31413/nat.v14i1.20593