Technological Innovation – A Route Towards Sustainability in the Irish Food Industry

dc.creatorKavanagh, Grainne
dc.creatorHenchion, Maeve M.
dc.creatorMcCarthy, Mary
dc.creatorMcCarthy, Sinead
dc.creatorWilliams, Gwilym
dc.date2017-04-01T19:23:04Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T06:52:19Z
dc.descriptionThe sustainability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is constantly challenged on today’s dynamic operating environment. Evolving regulatory trends, difficult economic conditions, and diminishing natural resources, pose serious questions for all players across the food system. Technological innovation, as a means of ensuring future sustainability in the same in the face of such challenges, has been the focus of significant government investment in Ireland. This paper, aims to facilitate a greater understanding of the motivations and barriers influencing the decision by food SMEs to invest in technological innovation emanating from research conducted in publicly-funded research institutes.
dc.identifierOther:ISSN 1869-6945
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.144845
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/144845/files/Kavanagh-ok.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/144845
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/581798
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/144845
dc.titleTechnological Innovation – A Route Towards Sustainability in the Irish Food Industry
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