Current Status and Perspectives of Forestry Entrepreneurship in Croatia

Šporčić, Mario; Landekić, Matija; Papa, Ivica; Lepoglavec, Kruno; Nevečerel, Hrvoje; Seletković, Ante; Bakarić, Matija

doi:10.15177/seefor.17-01

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“…According to the available country studies, it seems that entrepreneurship has often not even been a primary topic of interest or emphasis in forestry policy, although it is of great importance in societies in general [59]. One important influencing factor is certainly the common European labor market and the free movement of labor, as a promising opportunity for expanding the activities of entrepreneurs [60].…”

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Digital Approach to Successful Business Plans in Forestry and Related Fields

Pavlíková¹,

Meňházová²,

Lešinskis³

2023

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This paper is introducing KABADA (Knowledge Alliance of Business Idea Assessment: Digital Approach) unique tool, together with opinions of young people about entrepreneurship, their skills and experience with this tool. The focus is on non-business students who study natural sciences, engineering and other areas at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. KABADA tool has been developed and tested by a team of international experts. It can be used to improve forester management. This structured, Web-based, platform which is based on theoretical research, relevant statistics, and artificial intelligence insights, guides entrepreneurs through every step of the way including what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. The research included survey answers from 60 university students before and after using KABADA tool. The results show that students are interested in entrepreneurship but do not have the knowledge, experience and support from curriculum. Majority of students had no or very low experience with entrepreneurship nor any entrepreneurship training or study course before. After using the tool, students declared to have higher knowledge of entrepreneurship and the number of students who intended to become an entrepreneur increased. The tool is available on-line, free of charge.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Approach to Successful Business Plans in Forestry and Related Fields

Pavlíková¹,

Meňházová²,

Lešinskis³

2023

Preprint

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“…Although efficiency was gained by large forest companies and state organizations, a general issue of low profitability afflicts FEs. Some of these enterprises react by innovating their business model, starting from the value proposition, as they begin to carry out other activities complementary to forestry, such as land maintenance works, tree climbing, transport for third parties, or high-value and small-scale timber processing [94,95]. According to some studies, the successful business strategy of FEs is based on increasing knowledge through learning orientation, enabling continuous understanding of the surrounding environment and the attitude of innovation, together with strengthening organizational capacity, which is specifically referred to as the effort to operate in the most rational way as to reduce costs [96,97].…”

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Organizational Models in European Forestry: An Attempt of Conceptualization and Categorization

Loreggian

Secco

Pettenella

2023

Forests

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The changes and challenges that are tackling the forest sector in recent decades have prompted governments and foresters to work hard to find innovative solutions. Research in the forestry domain has focused on product and process innovation, and more recently on business systems and social innovation. In addition, organizational innovation is recognized and documented. However, while consistent conceptualization work has been conducted for business models and social innovation, the organizational domain in forestry seems less clear, characterized by multiple actors and often overlapping in literature, while a clear framework to describe it is missing. This work proposes a conceptualization of the “organizational model”, a concept embracing different approaches to build an analytical framework used to describe and characterize organizations in the forestry sector. The framework is drafted referring to existing theories, then tested (and further developed) through a semi-systematic literature review on organizations operating in forest management in Europe that are identified, categorized, and characterized. This exercise confirms that forest management organizations can be described with several diverse arrangements and can be complex entities: a holistic and comprehensive approach is more likely to be used by policy initiatives addressing improvement of forest management.

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