There is a well known saying: Research converts money into knowledge, innovation converts knowledge into money.The knowledge-based economy has four pillars: innovation, education, the economic and institutional regime, and informationinfrastructure. Transformation towards a knowledge-based...

We analyzed the existing situation of poultry sector with industrial experts and professionals of “Generating projects based on sector specific innovation in the poultry sector” symposium organized by University of Debrecen Centre for Agricultural Sciences Faculty of Agricultural Business...

This paper reviewed principally accepted methods applied to investment analysis. To describe every aspect of investment analysisfully would require far more space than available here, so we highlight only of few of its aspects.This study collects several well-known bibliographies, contrasts them...

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The Hungarian sheep sector has become a one-market sector, almost the wholeamount of slaughter lamb went to Italy. It would worth to exploit possibilities in other Europeanmarkets. Such markets can be the Spanish and Greek for ”light” and the French, German andEnglish markets for ”heavy”...

A helyzetfelmérés eredményeként megállapítható, hogy a magyar baromfi ágazatlegfőbb problémája a nemzetközi versenyképesség romlása. Ennek számos következményelehet, ami közvetlenül vagy közvetve érinti a fenntarthatóság három pillérét,a gazdasági, társadalmi és...

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the risk attitudes of Hungarian sheep producers regarding the changes they have had to go through since the political changes of 1989-1990. Moreover, the objective of this study is to strengthen the empirical basis for risk analysis by identifying...

The significance of quality production and quality improvement is widely acknowledged by many but few specify what should be improved and what quality should be produced. The reason may be that there are different quality categories in the process of the value chain. Moreover, the issue of...

A unique business-oriented educational method was launched in 2010 at the University Of Debrecen, Hungary, in the Faculty Of Applied Economics and Rural Development; the method has existed in the JAMK University of Applied Science in Jyväskylä (Finland) since 1993, and is called Team Academy....

New Sources of Employment to Promote the Wealth-Generating Capacity of Rural Communities (acronym: RuralJobs) is a collaborative research project partly funded under the European Commission Research and Development 7th Framework Program. The RuralJobs consortium consists of partners drawn from...