Wheat Industry: Which Factors Influence Innovation?

A change in the profile of food consumption is occurring because of the new context of demographic growth, the increase of income in developing economies, and urbanization. In Brazil, consumption patterns have trended from fresh to processed food and internal and external growth in demand has led to...

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Autores principales: Dalla Corte,Vitor Francisco, Dabdab Waquil,Paulo, Stiegert,Kyle
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Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2015
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420150003000022015-11-20Wheat Industry: Which Factors Influence Innovation?Dalla Corte,Vitor FranciscoDabdab Waquil,PauloStiegert,Kyle innovation food industry wheat products A change in the profile of food consumption is occurring because of the new context of demographic growth, the increase of income in developing economies, and urbanization. In Brazil, consumption patterns have trended from fresh to processed food and internal and external growth in demand has led to opportunities that require new and higher levels of technological innovation and associated managerial skill. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of innovation on a key Brazilian food industry: wheat product markets. Results showed that while most firms did not innovate in the past year, new investments in R & D were important for innovation to occur compared to other factors such as the size of the company, the integration in supply chain, and the age of the company. These results demonstrate that innovation is not a random or unpredictable process, but a complex and diverse process that may be specific to each industry.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.10 n.3 20152015-10-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242015000300002en10.4067/S0718-27242015000300002
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food industry
wheat products
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food industry
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Dalla Corte,Vitor Francisco
Dabdab Waquil,Paulo
Stiegert,Kyle
Wheat Industry: Which Factors Influence Innovation?
description A change in the profile of food consumption is occurring because of the new context of demographic growth, the increase of income in developing economies, and urbanization. In Brazil, consumption patterns have trended from fresh to processed food and internal and external growth in demand has led to opportunities that require new and higher levels of technological innovation and associated managerial skill. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of innovation on a key Brazilian food industry: wheat product markets. Results showed that while most firms did not innovate in the past year, new investments in R & D were important for innovation to occur compared to other factors such as the size of the company, the integration in supply chain, and the age of the company. These results demonstrate that innovation is not a random or unpredictable process, but a complex and diverse process that may be specific to each industry.
author Dalla Corte,Vitor Francisco
Dabdab Waquil,Paulo
Stiegert,Kyle
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Stiegert,Kyle
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title Wheat Industry: Which Factors Influence Innovation?
title_short Wheat Industry: Which Factors Influence Innovation?
title_full Wheat Industry: Which Factors Influence Innovation?
title_fullStr Wheat Industry: Which Factors Influence Innovation?
title_full_unstemmed Wheat Industry: Which Factors Influence Innovation?
title_sort wheat industry: which factors influence innovation?
publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
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