Agri-food industry in Extremadura: obstacles to innovation, willingness to innovate, and demanded publicactions

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the barriers perceived by agribusiness companies in Extremadura; how these barriers influence their disposition to innovate and the type of public actions demanded by these companies in order to boost innovation. Data comes from an ad hoc survey conducted in 2...

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Autores: Corchuelo Martínez-Azúa, Beatriz, Ferreiro Seoane, Francisco Jesús
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositório:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/40729
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/40729
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Agribusiness
Innovation
Barriers
Innovation policies
Industria agroalimentaria
Innovación
Barreras
Políticas de innovación
Economía
Geografía
Sociología
Economics
Geography
Sociology
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Resumo:The purpose of this paper is to analyse the barriers perceived by agribusiness companies in Extremadura; how these barriers influence their disposition to innovate and the type of public actions demanded by these companies in order to boost innovation. Data comes from an ad hoc survey conducted in 2013. The methodology used combines descriptive analysis with factor analysis and econometric analysis. Main results show that high costs and risks, lack of human resources and difficulties of appropriability are the barriers that reduce the probability to innovate, and that there are important differences among the perceived factors of obstacles and demands of public actions. This can be a reference to develop government policies specifically geared towards boosting innovation in this kind of industry.