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Open innovation is a new paradigm for the development of agribusiness in Romania and the Danube macro-region. Studies on agro-food chains and clusters are still scarce. In the Romanian agro-food sector, 7 regional and cross-regional clusters are very active. This study aims to present the state of the art on open innovation in agribusiness in Romania, identifying how it is adopted, the role of clusters and the factors that influence this process, a collaborative platform for agro-food clusters and their members an...

Clusters through their structure (the "four-leaf clover" model: members of the Business and Research-Development-Innovation areas, Authorities and Catalysts) play an important role in the innovation eco-system as accelerators for innovation and competitive value chains development of value in the smart specialization priorities. The services provided to the cluster members, especially aimed at creating synergies between science and research through the collaboration between the business environment and the RDI bas...

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) is a collaborative instrument for developing business/ technological/ research partnerships for entities around the world especially SMEВ’s (Small and Medium sized Enterprises). One of the key factors for business development is innovation. Innovation management can be assessed using specific methods and instruments. One of these methods is the approach developed by the ImP3ove Academy. The ImP3ove methodology is based on an on-line questionnaire which is filled out by the entit...

In the modern world, it is very important to pay special and significant importance to the process of corporate and social responsibility (CSR). Socially responsible activity brings a new look at the social direction of the business and it brings benefits to organizations, both directly and indirectly, which provides a long-term competitive advantage. The business entities have competed by several tools, mainly from the point of view of product’s quality, services, customers, etc. But the time is running and the...

The social innovation in clusters is a novelty for Romania and the paper presents a scientific method to evaluate and monitor of the social innovation performances in clusters. Clusters are drivers of entrepreneurship, innovation, economic growth and jobs. The paper intends to focus on the objectives related on the innovative capacity of clusters and of linkages that involve social relationships or networks that produce benefits for the cluster members, on the competitiveness of clusters and their potential of cre...

The aim of this paper is to present an ongoing research project „Paradigm Change of Mental Health and Well-being in Lithuania: Towards Empirically Valid Model” (2015-2017) and part of its results (research project is granted by Research Council of Lithuania). This project is aimed to contribute to the paradigmatic change by scientific research and evaluation of efficacy of pharmaceutic and psychotherapeutic treatment to psychological and social functioning, and to estimate economic burden of treatment and menta...