Paper prepared for presentation at the Fifth International Symposium on Management of Technology (ISMOT’07) Hangzhou (China), ZheJiang University, 1st to 3rd June 2007

The U.S. nursery industry is highly complex, and affected on their demand side by the construction industry and on their factor supply side by the market for low-skill labor, which in turn is influenced by gyrating construction activity as well as southern-border immigration. We examine an...

The Michigan State University (MSU) Dairy Team conducted an industry survey with the objectives of identifying and rating industry priorities. After holding discussion groups across the state, two questionnaires were developed and sent to 2,237 dairy farm owners and operators and 480 allied...

The U.S. nursery industry is highly complex, and affected on their demand side by the construction industry and on their factor supply side by the market for low-skill labor, which in turn is influenced by gyrating construction activity as well as southern-border immigration. We examine an...

A mobilisation of research, knowledge transfer and innovation to deal with the current challenges as raising world food demand while protecting natural resources is a priority area of the EU. The effective knowledge transfer and innovation activities in the agri-food supply chain may push all...

Dieser Beitrag verwendet ein Multiplikatives Wettbewerbsinteraktionsmodell (MCI - Multiplicative Competitive Interaction), eine bekannte Analysemethode in der Marketingforschung, um Änderungen der Farmspezialisierungen im Laufe der Zeit zu erklären. Die Farmspezialisierungsänderungen sind als...

The BMBF project “Urban Agriculture as integrative element of a climate-optimized urban development” was designed as a inter- transdisciplinary research project, generating target and transformation knowledge in the field of multifunctional open space systems in the context of emerging...

In dieser Arbeit werden Auswirkungen von Agar-Optionen auf die Volatilität des den Optionen zugrundeliegenden Futuresmarktes analysiert. Bisherige Analysen bezogen sich nahezu ausschließlich auf den Finanzmarkt. Für den Agrarmarkt scheinen noch keine empirischen Erkenntnisse zu existieren. Es...

Biogaserzeugungsunternehmen haben noch keine lange Unternehmensgeschichte, weshalb die Erfahrungen im Zusammenhang mit der Unternehmensbewertung begrenzt sind. Die Biogaserzeugung ist vielschichtig beeinflusst und bietet ein großes Spektrum wirtschaftlichen Erfolgs. Diese u. a. unternehmerisch,...