Innovation In Forestry

Author : Gerhard Weiss,Davide Pettenella,Pekka Ollonqvist,Bill Slee
Publisher : CABI
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781845936891

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Innovation in Forestry by Gerhard Weiss,Davide Pettenella,Pekka Ollonqvist,Bill Slee Pdf

Innovation in Forestry Territorial and Value Chain Relationships Edited by Gerhard Weiss, Davide Pettenella, Pekka Ollonqvist and Bill Slee Innovation is increasingly recognized as a key factor in environmental protection and sustainable development in forestry and forest-based industries. This volume provides a comprehensive theoretical foundation for the analysis of innovation processes and policies in a traditional, rural sector as well as presenting empirical analyses of innovation processes from major innovation areas. Innovative solutions are analysed in wood-related value chains, including timber-frame construction, furniture, bio-energy and forest transportation. Territorial services of the forest sector are examined, including various types of forest ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, non-wood products and recreation. Innovation in Forestry is essential reading for researchers and policy makers in forestry and environmental sciences.

Author : Ewald Rametsteiner,Gerhard Weiss,Klaus Kubeczko
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789047416135

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Forestry in Central Europe by Ewald Rametsteiner,Gerhard Weiss,Klaus Kubeczko Pdf

Current developments in Central Europe will have far-reaching consequences on the region’s forestry and related institutional arrangements, such as forest administration, extension services and forest research. Future prospects for the rural population living on income from forestry will considerably depend on how individuals and organisations react in view of these changes. It will be vitally important how forest owners and managers apply new knowledge in forestry and how organisations best deal with the emerging changes. Innovation and entrepreneurship are main driving forces for economic growth, competitiveness and employment creation, especially in rural areas. From 2001 to 2003, the EFI Regional Project Centre INNOFORCE conducted research on innovation and entrepreneurship in forestry in Central Europe, seeking answers to the following questions: What is the situation and perceived future outlook for forestry in the region? How important are innovation and entrepreneurship considered in the sector? How much innovation and entrepreneurship is actually taking place? What are supporting and impeding factors? The research report provides new knowledge on innovation behaviour of forest holdings and forest related innovation systems in Central Europe and on changes that are necessary to enhance innovation and entrepreneurship in the sector. Survey results are accompanied by lessons learned from more than 30 cases referring to innovations in forestry implemented in eight countries.

Author : Richard Allan Rajala,Canada Science and Technology Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : OCLC:841624375

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Feds, Forests, and Fire by Richard Allan Rajala,Canada Science and Technology Museum Pdf

Author : Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry (Australia)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Commercial forests
ISBN : 0980495881

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Ideas to Impact by Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry (Australia) Pdf

Author : Sergey V. Zykov,Dennis V. Dayneko
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811698613

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Forest Industry of Russia by Sergey V. Zykov,Dennis V. Dayneko Pdf

This book focuses on crisis management in forest industry of Russia. It is about the present, and the future, with a short retrospective about the past of the forest industry in Russia. It includes forecasting too and description of some of the best practices of developed countries to be implemented in Russia to overcome the crisis. The main theme of the book is smart innovations and innovative activities introduced and also those which are required in the forest industry of Russia. The book considers the effectiveness of innovations and institutional changes in the forest industry, which are an important direction of innovation activities required all together with technological and economic breakthrough with ecological aspects in priority. The necessity to implement the modern innovation system in the forest industry based on institutional changes is substantiated and thoroughly explained with successful examples of ongoing and future up-to-date smart innovations. The development of the forest innovation system is suggested for sustainable forest industry management; the key components of which are technological, product, institutional, and ecological innovations, as well as, innovative entrepreneurship. Realization of the innovation system for technological and intellectual improvement requires good scientific and personnel provision, anticipation of markets and tendencies of development for some decades ahead. The implied advanced technologies in the forest industry also include IT-, nano-, and biotechnologies. The success stories of the leading Russian and international companies in the forest industry of Russia are studied attentively in the book. The book presents a profound methodical and theoretical substantiation for the further implementation of the smart innovations and of the successful experience of the industry leading companies.

Author : Teppo Hujala,Anne Toppinen,Brett J. Butler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030289997

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Services in Family Forestry by Teppo Hujala,Anne Toppinen,Brett J. Butler Pdf

This book transfers the newest service research concepts, such as value co-creation, to family forestry context. The book is aimed at as learning material for higher-education students in Western economies, and as a handbook for forest scientists worldwide. It has a strong theoretical base, but also a practical orientation with examples of novel forest services from different regions and contexts. The five parts of the book are: I Conceptualization of Service Approaches in Family Forestry; II Market and Policy Environment; III Public Service and Business Innovations; IV Communication, Cooperation, and Organizations for Services; and V Transitions Governance. Each part begins with a chapter that is more conceptual and thus sets the stage for the subsequent chapters, which then focus on a regional perspective or some more specific theme under the part’s coverage.

Author : Cynthia Louise Miner
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781437913576

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Proceedings, International Conference on Transfer of Forest Science Knowledge and Technology by Cynthia Louise Miner Pdf

Compiles papers presented by extensionists, natural resource specialists, tech. transfer specialists, and others at a conf. that examined tech. transfer theories, methods, and case studies. Topics included: adult educ., extension, diffusion of innovations, social marketing, tech. transfer, etc. Descriptions of methods and case studies included combined digital media, engagement of users and commun. specialists in research, integrated forestry applications, Internet-based systems, science writing, training, video conf., Web-based ency., etc. Innovations transferred were best mgmt. practices for water quality, reforestation practices, land mgmt. system, portable timber bridges, reduced impact logging, silvicultural practices, urban forestry, etc. Illustrations.

Author : Abra Hovgaard,Eric Hansen,Joseph Roos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Forest products industry
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977015U

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Innovation in the Forest Products Industry by Abra Hovgaard,Eric Hansen,Joseph Roos Pdf

Because there is a lack of innovation research in the forest products industry and innovative activities in the industry are not well documented, this study attempted to fill that void. The objectives of this study were to understand the process and definition of innovation in the forest products industry, identify the constraints on innovative activities, identify resources that would improve innovation in forest products companies, compare the innovation environments in Alaska and Oregon, and provide a benchmark study for innovation in the forest products industry.‍?‍?This study revealed that there are several aspects of innovation in the forest products industry. In addition, the innovation process is a combination of semiformal development stages, trial and error, intuition, and luck. A variety of factors constrained companies from being more innovative, including government regulations, shipping and labor costs, lack of cash flow, raw material characteristics, marketing expertise, and raw material supply. There do not appear to be any resources that would be helpful to forest products companies, at least none that the interviewed companies could recommend. Offering companies the chance to exchange ideas and network is the most valuable resource available.‍?‍?The innovation environments in Alaska and Oregon are somewhat similar yet different in the marketing tactics employed and the techniques used to obtain market information.‍?‍?Furthermore, the type of innovation projects that each region focuses on differs, as does the actual process used to develop innovations. Future research should focus on completing a quantitative component to this study, developing short courses or 1-day seminars, identifying factors that contribute to innovation success and failure, investigating why the forest products industry is not innovative by nature, and exploring the external acquisition of innovation in the forest products industry.

Author : Pia Katila,Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Wil de Jong,Glenn Galloway,Pablo Pacheco,Georg Winkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108486996

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Sustainable Development Goals by Pia Katila,Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Wil de Jong,Glenn Galloway,Pablo Pacheco,Georg Winkel Pdf

A global assessment of potential and anticipated impacts of efforts to achieve the SDGs on forests and related socio-economic systems. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

Author : Steven Globerman
Publisher : Canadian Forest Service, Science Branch
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Competition
ISBN : MINN:31951D02028481H

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Technological Progress and Competitiveness in the Canadian Forest Products Industry by Steven Globerman Pdf

This report synthesizes current information and expert opinions pertaining to technological innovation & competitiveness and assesses the technological performance of the Canadian forest products sector. The opening chapter examines the process of technological innovation and technology's role in and impact on society. The next chapter assesses the technological capacity of the forest sector and describes some approaches for evaluating the adequacy of research and development funding. Chapter four identifies and discusses features and characteristics of the Canadian forest products sector and market that affect the industry's technological capacity and rate of innovation. The last chapter examines the changing competitive circumstances of the industry and how these conditions are expected to circumscribe the industry's future technological requirements. It also reviews and summarizes findings from previous chapters and reorganizes them into issues and considerations for positioning the forest sector in a knowledge-based global market. The appendix contains an overview of organizations involved in forestry and forest products research and development in Canada.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 2500 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319153463

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Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Anonim Pdf

The second edition of this exhaustive work (ECIIE) comprehensively covers the broad spectrum of topics relating to the process of creativity and innovation, from a wide variety of perspectives (e.g., economics, management, psychology, anthropology, policy, technology, education, the arts) and modes (individual, organization, industry, nation, region). This edition includes some 400 topical entries, definitions of key terms and concepts and review essays, from a global array of more than 250 researchers, business executives, policymakers, and artists, illuminating the many facets of creativity and innovation and highlighting their relationships to such universal concepts as knowledge management, economic opportunity, and sustainability. Entries feature description of key concepts and definition of terms, full-color illustrations, case examples, future directions for research and application, synonyms and cross-references and bibliographic references.

Author : Science Council of Canada
Publisher : Science Council of Canada
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Forest products industry
ISBN : MINN:31951D00082631Y

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A Sectoral Approach to Innovation by Science Council of Canada Pdf

The forest-products industries are Canada's largest industrial sector andaccount for one job in every seven. This statement is issued to stimulateaction toward an innovation strategy for the forest-product industriesbuilding on a background study of R & D and technological innovation in theseindustries and discussions with a number of industry leaders.

Author : Andrea Colantoni,Massimo Cecchini,Alvaro Marucci,Fabio Recanatesi
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783036502267

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WP3 – Innovation in Agriculture and Forestry Sector for Energetic Sustainability by Andrea Colantoni,Massimo Cecchini,Alvaro Marucci,Fabio Recanatesi Pdf

The papers published in this Special Issue “WP3—Innovation in Agriculture and Forestry Sector for Energetic Sustainability” bring together some of the latest research results in the field of biomass valorization and the process of energy production and climate change and other areas relevant to energetic sustainability [1–20]. Moreover, several works address the very important topic of evaluating the safety aspects for energy plant use [21–24]. Responses to our call generated the following statistics:• Submissions (21);• Publications (15);• Rejections (6);• Article types: research articles (13), reviews (2). Of the submitted papers, 15 have been successfully published as articles. Reviewing and selecting the papers for this Special Issue was very inspiring and rewarding. We also thank the editorial staff and reviewers for their efforts and help during the process. For better comprehension, the contributions to this Special Issue are divided into sections, as follows.

Author : Côté, Marc-André,Nathalie Perron,Québec Forest Research Council
Publisher : Sainte-Foy, Québec : Conseil de la recherche forestière du Québec
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2922020169

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Portrait of the Innovation System in Quebec's Forest Sector by Côté, Marc-André,Nathalie Perron,Québec Forest Research Council Pdf

Author : Christine Farcy,Eduardo Rojas-Briales,Inazio Martinez de Arano
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781315282350

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Forestry in the Midst of Global Changes by Christine Farcy,Eduardo Rojas-Briales,Inazio Martinez de Arano Pdf

Forestry today, like many other sectors that traditionally rely on material goods, faces significant global drivers of societal change that are less often addressed than the environmental concerns commonly in the spotlight of scientific, political, and news media. There are three major interconnected issues that are challenging forestry at its foundation: urbanization, tertiarization, and globalization. These issues are at the core of this book. The urbanization of society, a process in development from the first steps of industrialization, is particularly significant today with the predominance and quick growth rate of the world’s urban population. Ongoing urbanization is creating new perspectives on forestry, inducing changes in its social representation, and changing lifestyles and practices with a tendency toward dematerialization. The process of urbanization is also creating a disconnect and in some ways is leaving behind rurality, the sector of society where forestry has traditionally developed and taken place over centuries. The second issue covered in this book is the tertiarization of the economy. In society today, the sector of services largely dominates the economy and occupies the major part of the world’s active population. This ongoing process modifies professional modalities and ways of life and opens new doors to forests through the immaterial goods they provide. It also profoundly changes the framework, rules, processes, means of production, exchanges between economic factors, and the processes of innovation. The third issue is undoubtedly globalization in its economic, political, and social components. Whether it’s through bridging distances, crossing borders, accelerating changes, standardizing practices, leveling hierarchical structures, or pushing for interdependence, globalization impacts everyone, everywhere in multiple ways. Forestry is no exception. Forestry in the Midst of Global Changes focuses on these global drivers of change from the perspective of their relationships with how society functions. By analyzing them in depth through multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and even transdisciplinary approaches, this book is helping to design the forestry of tomorrow.