Development of bio-based economy

Entrepreneurial endeavors and innovation across Bulgarian wine industry

Bibliographic Data

ID13023908
AuthorsMina Angelova (0000-0002-1094-6356, Plovdiv University, corresponding author), Daniela Pastarmadzhieva (0000-0002-5857-3595, Plovdiv University)
Year2020
Volume13
Issue2
Pages149-162
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2071-8330 • E-ISSN: 2306-3483
PublisherCentre of Sociological Research, NGO (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14254/2071-8330.2020/13-2/11
OpenAlexW3038483740
LanguageEN
Citations received4

We are living in a time when the population of the Earth is increasing and the available resources are decreasing. The latter requires the establishment of a smart and sustainable bio-based economy, and the creation of such an economy is tightly associated with the implementation of innovations. Bulgarian wine industry is a sector, where possibilities of innovations related to bio-economy are vast and open. Thus, the current study aims at identifying the entrepreneurial endeavours and the innovations' involvement in the wine industry as a specific sector of the bio-based economy in Bulgaria. The results indicate that there is a potential for the introduction of bio innovations in the wine industry as the producers are willing to implement them. However, currently there are almost no innovations related to the bio-economy and the prevailing innovations in Bulgarian wine industry are the marketing ones

Bulgarian · Business · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Industrial organization · Wine · Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development · Chemistry · Organic Food and Agriculture · Wine Industry and Tourism · Food Science

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