This article analyzes the theoretical aspects of clusters in innovative economy and their management, including increase economic efficiency agro-clusters as a result organization agricultural sector on basis “production - service production storage supply processing sales” development cluster services, diversification exported finished products improvements, authors have developed unique, new ...

abstract in present paper has tried to examine and investigate quality of effectiveness of monetary shocks on the growth of agricultural sector by using time series dataes of iran economy during 1960-2006 , filter hodric-prescott method and liner regressive models. the resultes show that qualily of effectiveness monetary shocks on growth of agricultural sector is asymmetric and length of effect...

Czech economy went in last two decades through two important changes. The first of the changes was transition of central planned economy to market economy. Since this moment the Czech economy has been confronted with products from the entire world. The second important change was the EU entrance in 2004. Although in the period 2007–2013 one of the priorities of the European Commission was suppo...

Starting in the 1970’s, the Brazilian agricultural sector has experienced an important process of modernization, whose principal effects include advances in technological progress and gains in productivity. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze technological progress and total productivity growth in the Brazilian agricultural sector during the period from 1970 to 1996. The methodolo...

In today's economy, it is crucial to optimize the resources used in agriculture, especially when the everyone goal is to get a high yield, with a higher profit, at a low cost as possible. Taking into account this context, the paper presents an architectural model for a Wireless Sensor Network, as a part of an Agricultural Geographic Information System, and describes the main components, the typ...

The structure of developed economies has changed radically in recent decades. As late as the 1960s, it was reasonable to describe the economy in terms of three stages of production: primary production—of agricultural and mineral raw materials; secondary production—a manufacturing industry that transformed raw materials into items of final consumption; tertiary production—a sector that provided ...

A computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach is used to assess the macroeconomic effects of global and regional catastrophic losses of pollination ecosystem services. Results show economic risks to both direct crop sectors and indirect non-crop sectors in the economy, with a substantial amount of regional heterogeneity. In addition, there exists potential for winners, those regions with a co...

The chapter reviews the generation and adoption of new technologies in the agricultural sector. The first section describes models of induced innovation and experimentation, considers the political economy of public investments in agricultural research, and addresses institutions and public policies for managing innovation activity. The second section reviews the economics of technology adoptio...

Since the early 1980s, donors and international These reform experiments have revealed eight lending agencies have promoted the reform of main lessons: agricultural marketing as a central component of economy wide structural adjustment programs in Africa. Although the record of implementation has often been slow and uneven, staple food marketing policy has been transformed over this period. The...