University knowledge exchange and the SKIN Project

Sara, Djelveh; Contò, Francesco

doi:10.1515/rem-2016-0016

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“…3. Methodological approach, the case of "SKIN" project Sara and Francesco, 2016). The SKIN Project started in November 2016 and involves 20 partners from 14 countries in the area of short food supply chains (SFSCs), coordinated by the University of Foggia.…”

Section: Competitive Advantagementioning

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Economic sustainability in Short Food Supply Chain. The case of the Horizon 2020 project "Short Food Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN)"

Pascale¹,

Colantuono²,

Djelveh³

et al. 2017

Rivista Di Studi Sulla Sostenibilita'

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This study aims at providing a framework to find out best agro-food practices and foster their spreading to European actors operating in Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC). Quick knowledge circulation allows a reduction of asymmetric information among such operators. These latter frequently imply an excessive level of transactional costs that negatively affect farms economic sustainability. Hence, reduction of costs is an important priority. The methodological approach is carried out within the SKIN project, analyzing metrics parameters to assess SFSC economic sustainability. It will create local hubs to collect knowledge from each European area where stakeholders operate, through the identification of adequate regional nodes, connected among themselves. Network will enable a real knowledge transfer and innovation uptake. Lastly, the network will be exploited to enhance the added value of involved farms.

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Section: Competitive Advantagementioning

confidence: 99%

Economic sustainability in Short Food Supply Chain. The case of the Horizon 2020 project "Short Food Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN)"

Pascale¹,

Colantuono²,

Djelveh³

et al. 2017

Rivista Di Studi Sulla Sostenibilita'

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Challenges of Knowledge Exchange Management for University Scientists in Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Porev¹,

Kolomytseva²

2020

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The article is devoted to the issues of knowledge exchange management between university scientists and employees of small firms in entrepreneurial ecosystems. It is confirmed that in recent decades the role of the third component of the university's mission, which is associated with the exchange of knowledge, has increased, and this changes requirements for joint creation of a cognitive product with external stakeholders, including entrepreneurship.It has been shown that the challenges for university teachers in increasing knowledge exchange are related to strengthening the component of applied research and development related to specific business projects. As a part of the exchange of knowledge, university employees must not just transfer their work to entrepreneurship, but to achieve its assimilation by employees of companies. In the same way, university scientists are faced with the task of more meaningfully studying and processing knowledge on the subject of activities of companies. This approach to joint applied research and development is a challenge for teachers, who, in addition, within education must create a pedagogically developed content knowledge of the subjects, and within the scientific component of the university's mission – to perform basic research. It is shown that three types of knowledge that correspond to modern ideas about the mission of universities are related but different, which requires appropriate changes in their management.The problematic aspects of assimilation and dissemination of explicit and implicit or tacit knowledge within the joint groups of university scientists and employees of small firms are considered. It is substantiated that in the exchange of the results of cognition with the use of material carriers, what is transmitted loses the property of knowledge to be the justified belief, because it goes beyond the mental content of the author's mind. It is proved that on the way of knowledge exchange there are not only organizational and methodological barriers, but also cognitive-communicative gaps. It is established that the socialization and externalization of knowledge in management systems has a cognitive-communicative basis to fail the desired completeness. Cooperation of different activities and knowledge is potentially a means of non-standard and useful solutions in innovative entrepreneurship. But such cooperation and co-production of knowledge is a source for incompleteness of understanding the others, which counteracts the common achievements and requires the attention of managers.

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Farm Differentiation Strategies and Sustainable Regional Development

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The paper examines differentiation business strategies in food production in Braničevo-Podunavlje region (Serbia). The research methodology includes survey research focused on the producers engaged in the production of value-added agricultural products, which have a greater potential for differentiation and branding. A range of survey indicators enable farmers and entrepreneurs of differentiated products to emphasize key success factors, detect barriers, and generate business ideas and innovations. Survey research was conducted in the period December 2018–January 2019, among 67 farmers, legal entities, and unincorporated enterprises−producers of high-quality niche food products in Braničevo–Podunavlje region. Results of the research indicated vegetable and fruit processing, beekeeping, and milk processing as sectors of the most promising value-added food products, including those that form the region’s basket of products. The study’s findings should contribute to the development of differentiated business models in the food sector and strengthening their role in smart regional development.

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University knowledge exchange and the SKIN Project

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Economic sustainability in Short Food Supply Chain. The case of the Horizon 2020 project "Short Food Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN)"

Economic sustainability in Short Food Supply Chain. The case of the Horizon 2020 project "Short Food Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN)"

Challenges of Knowledge Exchange Management for University Scientists in Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Farm Differentiation Strategies and Sustainable Regional Development

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