Innovation and entrepreneurship in forestry in Central Europe /

Innovation and entrepreneurship in forestry in Central Europe / / Ewald Rametsteiner, Gerhard Weiss and Klaus Kubeczko.

Current developments in Central Europe will have far-reaching consequences on the region's forestry and related institutional arrangements, such as forest administration, extension services and forest research. Future prospects for the rural population living on income from forestry will consid...

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Superior document:European Forest Institute research report ; 19
:
European Forest Institute.
VerfasserIn:
Rametsteiner, Ewald,
TeilnehmendeR:
Rametsteiner, Ewald.
Weiss, Gerhard, 1966-
Kubeczko, Klaus.
European Forest Institute.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Research report (European Forest Institute) ; 19.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Notes:"European Forest Institute; Innoforce, EFI Project Centre."
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Background and Objectives
  • 2. Theory
  • 2.1 Innovation systems
  • 2.2 Entrepreneurs / entrepreneurship
  • 3. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Monitors
  • 3.1 European Innovation Scoreboard
  • 3.2 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
  • 4. Method
  • 4.1 Overall approach
  • 4.2 Forest holdings survey
  • 4.3 Institutional system survey
  • 4.4 Case study analysis
  • 5. Frame Conditions for Innovations in Forestry in Central Europe
  • 5.1 Forest resources and their utilization in Central Europe
  • 5.2 Ownership structures
  • 5.3 Educational background of forest managers/owners
  • 5.4 Goals and strategies of forest management
  • 5.5 Decision making structures and distribution of work
  • 5.6 Product mix and contribution to income
  • 6. Forest-owners and Forest Managers as Innovators
  • 6.1 Innovation behaviour
  • 6.2 Sources of impulse and information for innovation
  • 6.3 Fostering factors for innovation
  • 6.4 Impeding factors to innovation
  • 6.5 Suggestions for improvements in innovation support
  • 7. Forest owners and forest managers as entrepreneurs: start-ups in forestry
  • 7.1 Entrepreneurship activities and behaviour
  • 7.2 Support, fostering and impeding factors for start-ups
  • 8. Entrepreneurial Orientation and Future Expectations
  • 8.1 Entrepreneurial orientation of forest owners and forest managers
  • 9. Institutional System of Innovation
  • 9.1 Key actors in sectoral innovation systems and their views
  • 9.2 Market expectations of institutional system actors
  • 10. Innovation Systems and Processes: Lessons from Selected Cases
  • 10.1 Wood products: Looking beyond the forest
  • 10.2 Non-wood products: Marketing traditional products
  • 10.3 Nature conservation services: From regulation to contracts
  • 10.4 Recreational services: Accommodation and forest education
  • 10.5 New technologies: Further mechanisation of forest work
  • 10.6 The organisational challenge: Horizontal and vertical co-operation
  • 10.7 Comparative analysis
  • 10.8 Entrepreneurship in forestry
  • 10.9 The role of sectoral and regional innovation systems in forestry
  • innovations
  • 11. Conclusions and Recommendations
  • 11.1 Note the frame conditions for innovation
  • 11.2 The current situation: Shortcomings and surprising strengths
  • 11.3 Do institutional actors understand the needs of forest owners and
  • managers?
  • 11.4 How well are the three innovation system functions fulfilled?
  • 11.5 Summary of recommendations
  • Abbreviations
  • References.

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