It is basically assumed that a higher level of domestic wood harvesting leads to a higher level of domestic wood use and thus to an increase of value added in the wood processing industry. However, in the past years, the wood input increased in some wood processing sectors in Germany whereas...

This article focuses on the question of how eco-innovation projects can lead to the break-out of an industrial trajectory. Using the example of the Aquitaine wood industry, we question how eco-innovation projects promoted by the ‘competitiveness cluster’ might help to modify that trajectory....

In this study, we address the effect of innovation strategy and an innovative working climate on financial performance in the Norwegian wood industry. Innovation strategy embodies four dimensions: the degrees to which innovation in the form of products, processes, and business systems are...

In this article, through the case study of the Aquitaine forest-wood-paper filière, we emphasize the need for integrating a stronger consideration of natural resources in the analysis in terms of innovation systems. Based on the main specificity of this sector, i.e. its important dependence on...

The purpose of ecocertification in the forest sector is to guarantee a sustainable management of the forest resources by the producers (forest owners) and define production rules for the transformation industry. We propose an analysis of the ex-post impact of ecocertification, when it is, on the...

The paper analyses the evolution of industrial production in Romanian wood and furniture industry since 1993 to 1998 in the context of restructuring process of the large state-owned companies after 1989, presents the global indicators of the private wood sector in 1999 and constructs labour...

This study primarily aimed to contrast the potential relationships between innovation and market concentration. Thus, the relationship between innovation and the European wood industry market structure was analysed. An empirical model was assessed through panel techniques, wherein the wood...