Product Innovation in the Crafts Sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-109
Author(s):  
Maria Sarmento ◽  
Marlene Amorim ◽  
Marta Ferreira Dias ◽  
Mara Madaleno
Keyword(s):  
Product Innovation ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
New Products ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
European Context ◽  
Territorial Identity ◽  
Relevant Topic ◽  
The Creation

Background: Innovation can result from progressive or significant changes to existing products leading to improvements in performance and user value. This is the type of innovation that is more easily perceived by the consumer, as it results in the creation of new products or the improvement of existing ones. Innovation in the Crafts Sector is a relevant topic to address market changes, and meet evolving consumer preferences. In this vein, artisans need to meet the calls for regularly investing in the design of new products and processes, with the purpose of achieving the sustainability of their business. Methods: This article addresses the existing calls for contextualizing the crafts sector and for fostering product innovation in this area, by investigating the barriers and problems faced by artisans, as well as by exploring existing experiences in overcoming them. The article builds on data collected in five European countries, under the scope of the Erasmus+ Project Craftsmanship+ “Fostering a New and Competitive Approach to Crafts and Semi Industrial high added-value sectors”1. Results and Conclusion: The aim is to analyze the importance of the crafts sector in a European context. This article contributes in a timely manner to the understanding of the crafts sector by paying attention to the obstacles that artisans face in order to ensure the sustainability of their business by introducing product innovation into their organization and/or market. This study offers a collection of innovation experiences in realities that are very significant for territorial identity, and thus aims to provide an incentive for further research.

scholarly journals Globalisation as a Hidden Stimulus of the Growth of European Territorial Identity

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Jan Sucháček
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
European History ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
European Context ◽  
Territorial Identity ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Trigger Mechanisms

The issue of identity becomes a subject of an enlarged interest especially in view of progressing European integration. This paper is a reflection on the growing extent of the consciousness of European territorial identity and tries to uncover the underlying factors of this development. It is empirically well documented that Europeans can be increasingly characterized by multiple territorial identities, i.e. simultaneous identities to a variety of territorial communities. It is argued that exclusive identities as an inseparable part of European history and memory acted as one of trigger mechanisms of nationalism. Therefore, the shift from exclusive identities to the over-arching European identity seems to be desirable supplement to the current integration process. There is ample evidence that European administration supports the creation of European identity. Officially, fostered idea of European identity has found a striking and unexpected ally in the form of globalisation. Global processes became one of the stimuli of the growth of multiple territorial identities. Since the same applies to European territorial identity, individuals increasingly find themselves within European territorial identity, individuals increasingly find themselves within European context as well. The main aim of this article is thus to illuminate and conceptualise the relation between globalisation and territorial identities, with special emphasis on European territorial identity.

The Microeconomics of Product Innovation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Stoneman ◽  
Eleonora Bartoloni ◽  
Maurizio Baussola
Keyword(s):  
Product Innovation ◽  
New Products ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Product Innovations ◽  
Microeconomic Analysis ◽  
Prime Objective ◽  
Price Measurement ◽  
The Impact

The prime objective of this book is the use microeconomic analysis to guide and provide insight into the generation and adoption of new products. Taking an approach that uses minimal formal mathematics, the volume initially addresses questions of definitions, sources, and extent of product innovation, differentiating between goods and services; hard and soft innovations; horizontal and vertical innovations; original, new to market, and new to firm innovations. The sources of product innovations (e.g. R&D, design, and creativity) are explored empirically, and the extent of such innovations is then pursued using survey and other data. Three chapters are devoted to the theoretical analysis of the demand for and supply of new products and to the determination of firms’ decisions to undertake product innovation. Later chapters encompass empirical evidence on the determination of the extent of product innovation, the diffusion of such innovation, the impact of product innovation on firm performance, price measurement, and welfare, while the final chapter addresses policy issues.

scholarly journals Innovation on Wheels in Emerging Economies: Lessons from Auto MNC’s Experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rifat Sharmelly
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Innovative Performance ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Acceptability Criteria

Emerging economies (EEs) are increasingly being considered as new sources of growth and innovation opportunities for global auto multinational companies. Many multinational companies from developed countries are eager to prosper in these economies. However, the crucial challenge that companies face today is to identify what precisely are the approaches required to serve mass market customers in EEs. In this research, the case study of a foreign auto multinational operating in India has been utilized. Focusing on the product innovation for the Indian masses with the creation of the most affordable car ‘Figo’ from the reputed auto multinational Ford, this analysis reveal the importance of engaging same set of suppliers in trust based, recurrent collaborative linkages to enhance the innovative performance. In addition, ensuring an effective value-for-money proposition is needed to achieve innovations with required affordability and acceptability criteria. Furthermore, experimenting with modules and resultant learning about markets are needed to enhance the innovative performance. With the suggested testable propositions, this study has significant theoretical contributions as well as implications for managers of aspiring companies intending to serve EEs.

scholarly journals Financial Provisioning - Basis Of Strategic Decisions Of Themanagement Of Resources For Security And Defence

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sevdalina Dimitrova ◽  
Venelin Terziev
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Creation

Abstract The strategic decisions defining the defence capabilities that are necessary for our country in response to the dynamic changes in the security environment are directly related to the question “How much?” concerning the price that taxpayers should pay for the creation and development of those capabilities. Since security and defense constitute a public good whose creation is entirely dependent on the economic potential, on the GDP of the country, the manifestation of the price of that good is the budget of the Defence Ministry. This calls for the implementation of a system and tools, appropriate for budget resource management in order to ensure the increase of the added value of defence capabilities.

scholarly journals Studi Kasus Analisis Pendapatan Usaha Copasme di Kota Palangka Raya

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Asro Laelani Indrayanti ◽  
Elyta Vivi Yanti ◽  
Arief Rahman Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Production Cost ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Net Income ◽  
The Creation

Technological innovation in local food products is absolutely necessary, by creating the added value in such a way as local products so that the products produced have more or at least the same value as local products. The result of the creation of local products, Copasme able to meet the growing demands of global consumers, namely in addition to demanding aspects of pleasure, the enjoyment of local products, consumers still want aspects of health and safety. Copasme is one of the alternative drink sachets developed in Palangkaraya City. From the analysis of copasme sachet business during one period (per month) it is known that (1) production cost is IDR. 6,472,000.00 (2) revenue of IDR. 21,600,000.00, (3) Net income / profit of IDR. 15,128,000.00 (4) Efficiency of 3.3. This shows that the sachet copas business is efficient or feasible.

scholarly journals From the European Health Community to the European Health Union: The Project of the Supranational Health and Research Organization of the European Countries and its Historical Destiny

Lex Russica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
A. O. Chetverikov
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Legal Model ◽  
European Health ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The Impact

The paper examines the little-known pages of the legal regulation of international integration in Europe: the project of the creation in the middle of the 20th century of the European Health Community (EHC) and its relationship to the current project for the establishment of the European Health Union. The introduction examines the reasons for the ineffective response of the modern European Union (EU) to the global coronavirus pandemic, mainly due to the lack of European institutions, in contrast to the economy and a number of other spheres of public life, supranational powers in the field of health.The first section analyzes the main provisions of the draft EHC presented by the French Government in 1952 and became the subject of an international "preparatory conference" with the participation of 16 European countries at the end of the same year. The author gives special attention to the legal consolidation in the EHC draft founding treaty of "sanitary activities" (prevention and counteraction of various types of diseases); "cultural provisions" dedicated to the collection of information, the development of scientific research and education in the field of health; provisions on the creation of a common therapeutic and research infrastructure of the EHC; the political and legal nature of the EHC as a supranational organization with restrictions in its favor of the sovereign rights of the participating states.The second section describes and evaluates the domestic, foreign, and economic factors that prevented the creation of the EHC.The final section examines the impact of the EHC on the law-making and law-enforcement activities of the modern EU, and compares the legal model of the EHC with the model of the European Health Union, which was established in the end of 2020. There are also proposals for using the experience of European integration in the field of healthcare for the development of integration processes in a similar field between Russia and other former Soviet republics, including the creation of common medical and research centers under the auspices of the Union State of Russia and Belarus and (or) the Eurasian Economic Union, equipped with mega-science facilities (synchrotrons, etc.), other advanced infrastructure of scientific theoretical and scientific applied nature.

scholarly journals AEGIS, the Virtual European Genebank: Why It Is Such a Good Idea, Why It Is Not Working and How It Could Be Improved

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2165
Author(s):  
Theo van Hintum ◽  
Johannes M. M. Engels ◽  
Lorenzo Maggioni
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Genetic Resources ◽  
Plant Genetic Resources ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Umbrella Organization ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Right

Europe is very active in terms of conserving plant genetic resources, with hundreds of genebanks and thousands of dedicated people involved. However, the resulting infrastructure is, along with being very expensive, far from efficient and not very reliable. In this opinion paper, the authors describe how this situation arose, and why the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR), the collaborative umbrella organization of the European countries involved, has not been able to improve this situation so far significantly. The principles of the decentralized virtual genebank (AEGIS) are described, and an analysis is made of the reasons for its lack of success. Possible changes for making AEGIS a success, or at least steps in the right direction, are proposed. These changes center around the creation of a system of certified genebanks with proper quality management, guaranteeing the long-term conservation of, and immediate access to the plant genetic resources conserved in it.

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