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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Innovation in Traditional Food Networks
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| Autores: |
Gellynck, Xavier
Kuhne, Bianka
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| Data: |
2009-05-07
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| Ano: |
2008
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| Palavras-chave: |
Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Farm Management
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Industrial Organization
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| Resumo: |
In an increasingly globalising market, innovation is an important strategic tool for micro, small, and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to achieve competitive advantage (Avermaete et al., 2004a; Gellynck et al., 2007; Murphy, 2002). Innovation can be defined as an ongoing process of learning, searching and exploring resulting in new products, new techniques, new forms of organization and new markets (Lundvall, 1995). Innovation is a continuous process characterised by three steps: efforts, activities and results. Efforts are all resources, such as human and financial resources, a firm is investing in activities for the development of innovations. Results are the effects of these innovation activities on tangible (e.g. growth of market share, profit) as well as less tangible aspects (e.g. firm stability, efficiency) (Gellynck et al., 2006). Consequently, the measurement of innovation competences captures also the progress in developing an innovation and not only the result, such as the successful implementation of innovation (Gellynck et al., 2007).
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
ISBN 978-3-932887-96-3
http://purl.umn.edu/49847
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| Relação: |
European Association of Agricultural Economists>110th Seminar, February 18-22, 2008, Innsbruck-Igls, Austria
proceedings
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| Formato: |
10
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