Despite progress in the literature in understanding the relationships between barriers, drivers, and features of eco‐innovations (EIs) to promote the circular economy (CE) and improve companies' sustainability results, the evidence remains limited and diffuse. To address this gap, we investigate the effect of barriers, sources of information, and features of innovations and EIs on manufacturing companies' CE and sustainability performance. This longitudinal study used official Colombian government data from 3144 manufacturing companies (2015–2020), considering partial least squares structural equation modeling. Our results reveal that developing or adopting (eco‐) innovations with incremental features could cause a blockage in implementing high‐level CE and in improving their overall sustainability performance. Similarly, radical (eco‐) innovations need more evidence to clarify their impacts on CE and sustainability. Finally, we show that the improvement in environmental and CE performance attributed to (eco‐) innovations has a significant and positive impact on the company's economics.

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循环经济和可持续发展绩效的生态创新：来自制造企业的见解和证据


尽管文献在理解生态创新 （EI） 的障碍、驱动因素和特征之间的关系方面取得了进展，以促进循环经济 （CE） 和改善公司的可持续性结果，但证据仍然有限且分散。为了解决这一差距，我们调查了障碍、信息来源以及创新和 EI 特征对制造公司的 CE 和可持续性绩效的影响。这项纵向研究使用了来自 3144 家制造公司（2015-2020 年）的哥伦比亚政府官方数据，考虑了偏最小二乘结构方程建模。我们的结果表明，开发或采用具有增量特征的（生态）创新可能会导致实施高级 CE 和提高其整体可持续性绩效的障碍。同样，激进的（生态）创新需要更多证据来阐明它们对 CE 和可持续性的影响。最后，我们表明，归因于（生态）创新的环境和 CE 性能的改善对公司的经济性有重大而积极的影响。