IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v12y2020i14p5825-d386940.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Investment in Research and Development and New Technological Adoption for the Sustainable Beekeeping Sector

Author

Listed:
  • Jelena Vapa-Tankosić

    (Department of Business Economics and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Engineering Management in Novi Sad, University Business Academy in Novi Sad, Cvećarska 2, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia)

  • Vera Miler-Jerković

    (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 73, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia)

  • Dejan Jeremić

    (Faculty of Business and Financial Studies, University of Business Studies in Banja Luka, Jovana Dučića 23a, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

  • Slobodan Stanojević

    (Faculty of Applied Management, Economics and Finance, University Business Academy in Novi Sad, Jevrejska 24/1, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia)

  • Gordana Radović

    (Dnevnik-Poljoprivrednik AD Novi Sad, Bulevar Oslobođenja 81, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to understand how members of beekeeping associations, with long-standing sustainable traditions and products with registered geographical origins, perceive the investments in research and development (R&D) and new technological adoptions. By means of a binary logistic regression, the socio-demographic factors of the members of beekeeping associations predicting the investments in R&D and new technological adoptions were analyzed. Our findings point out that higher level of education and professional beekeeping experience predicts the willingness of investing in research and development. The higher level of education positively influences the willingness to hire professional consultants or bodies for the research and development of beekeeping practices. Serbian female beekeepers, beekeepers aged more than 41 years and professionally engaged beekeepers are more likely to admit that they need support of scientific and research institutions in the further development of beekeeping practices. A higher education has been shown to significantly predict the value added hive products due to new technology adoption. There is also a positive influence of the education level on new technology adoption.

Suggested Citation

  • Jelena Vapa-Tankosić & Vera Miler-Jerković & Dejan Jeremić & Slobodan Stanojević & Gordana Radović, 2020. "Investment in Research and Development and New Technological Adoption for the Sustainable Beekeeping Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(14), pages 1-17, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:14:p:5825-:d:386940
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/14/5825/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/14/5825/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Lengler, Leticia & Lago, Adriano & Coronel, Daniel Arruda, . "A Organização Associativa No Setor Apícola: Contribuições E Potencialidades," Organizações Rurais e Agroindustriais/Rural and Agro-Industrial Organizations, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Departamento de Administracao e Economia, vol. 9(2), pages 1-13.
    2. Pocol, Cristina Bianca, 2011. "Sustainable policies for the development of beekeeping in Romania," Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, vol. 11(26), pages 1-8, September.
    3. Drago Cvijanović & Svetlana Ignjatijević & Jelena Vapa Tankosić & Vojin Cvijanović, 2020. "Do Local Food Products Contribute to Sustainable Economic Development?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-18, April.
    4. Nikola Puvača & Erinda Lika & Sonila Cocoli & Tana Shtylla Kika & Vojislava Bursić & Gorica Vuković & Mirela Tomaš Simin & Aleksandra Petrović & Magdalena Cara, 2020. "Use of Tea Tree Essential Oil ( Melaleuca alternifolia ) in Laying Hen’s Nutrition on Performance and Egg Fatty Acid Profile as a Promising Sustainable Organic Agricultural Tool," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-8, April.
    5. Eforuoky, F. & Thomas, K.A., 2015. "Effect of training on the use of modern beekeeping technologies in Oyo State, Nigeria," Nigerian Journal of Rural Sociology, Rural Sociological Association of Nigeria, vol. 15(2), March.
    6. Ignjatijević, Svetlana & Čavlin, Miroslav & Đorđević, Dragomir, 2014. "Measurement Of Comparative Advantages Of Processed Food Sector Of Serbia In The Increasing The Export," Economics of Agriculture, Institute of Agricultural Economics, vol. 61(3), pages 1-17, October.
    7. Jelena Vapa-Tankosić & Svetlana Ignjatijević & Jelena Kiurski & Jovana Milenković & Irena Milojević, 2020. "Analysis of Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Organic and Local Honey in Serbia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-23, June.
    8. Svetlana Ignjatijević & Ivan Milojević & Gorica Cvijanović & Mersida Jandrić, 2015. "Balance of Comparative Advantages in the Processed Food Sector of the Danube Countries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(6), pages 1-18, May.
    9. Schot, Johan & Steinmueller, W. Edward, 2018. "Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation and transformative change," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 47(9), pages 1554-1567.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Nikola Puvača & Vincenzo Tufarelli, 2022. "Sustainable Organic Agriculture for Developing Agribusiness Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-3, August.
    2. PANTA Nancy Diana, 2021. "Operationalizing Farm Sustainability, Particularities From The Beekeeping Sector," Revista Economica, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Economic Sciences, vol. 73(Special), pages 218-229, December.
    3. Raquel P. F. Guiné & Jorge Oliveira & Catarina Coelho & Daniela Teixeira Costa & Paula Correia & Helena Esteves Correia & Bjørn Dahle & Melissa Oddie & Risto Raimets & Reet Karise & Luis Tourino & Sal, 2023. "Professional Training in Beekeeping: A Cross-Country Survey to Identify Learning Opportunities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-20, June.
    4. Miroslav Čavlin & Nedeljko Prdić & Svetlana Ignjatijević & Jelena Vapa Tankosić & Nemanja Lekić & Sara Kostić, 2023. "Research on the Determination of the Factors Affecting Business Performance in Beekeeping Production," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-22, March.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Vuk Radojević & Mirela Tomaš Simin & Danica Glavaš Trbić & Dragan Milić, 2020. "A Profile of Organic Food Consumers—Serbia Case-Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-22, December.
    2. Romeo Teodor Cristina & Zorana Kovačević & Marko Cincović & Eugenia Dumitrescu & Florin Muselin & Kalman Imre & Dumitru Militaru & Narcisa Mederle & Isidora Radulov & Nicoleta Hădărugă & Nikola Puvača, 2020. "Composition and Efficacy of a Natural Phytotherapeutic Blend against Nosemosis in Honey Bees," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(14), pages 1-16, July.
    3. Ivan Balenović & Svetlana Ignjatijević & Goran Stojanović & Jelena Vapa Tankosić & Nemanja Lekić & Olivera Milutinović & Aleksandar Gajić & Miloš Ivaniš & Jelena Bošković & Radivoj Prodanović & Nikola, 2021. "Factors Influencing Wine Purchasing by Generation Y and Older Cohorts on the Serbian Wine Market," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-22, October.
    4. Hongyi Mao & Zongjun Wang & Lin Yi, 2021. "Does Entrepreneurial Orientation Lead to Successful Sustainable Innovation? The Evidence from Chinese Environmentally Friendly Companies," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-19, September.
    5. Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello, 2022. "Top R&D investors, structural change and the R&D growth performance of young and old firms," Eurasian Business Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 12(1), pages 1-33, March.
    6. Janssen, Matthijs J. & Abbasiharofteh, Milad, 2022. "Boundary spanning R&D collaboration: Key enabling technologies and missions as alleviators of proximity effects?," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 180(C).
    7. Allen, Darcy W.E. & Berg, Chris & Markey-Towler, Brendan & Novak, Mikayla & Potts, Jason, 2020. "Blockchain and the evolution of institutional technologies: Implications for innovation policy," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(1).
    8. Krammer, Sorin M.S., 2022. "Human resource policies and firm innovation: The moderating effects of economic and institutional context," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    9. Laima Gerlitz & Christopher Meyer, 2021. "Small and Medium-Sized Ports in the TEN-T Network and Nexus of Europe’s Twin Transition: The Way towards Sustainable and Digital Port Service Ecosystems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-24, April.
    10. Švarc, Jadranka & Dabić, Marina, 2021. "Transformative innovation policy or how to escape peripheral policy paradox in European research peripheral countries," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
    11. Cantarella, Michele & Fraccaroli, Nicolò & Volpe, Roberto, 2024. "Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 53(6).
    12. Mohammad Hossein Azin & Hessam Zandhessami, 2025. "Strategic Alignment Patterns in National AI Policies," Papers 2507.05400, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2025.
    13. Mariana Pita & Joana Costa & António Carrizo Moreira, 2021. "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Entrepreneurial Initiative: Building a Multi-Country Taxonomy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-26, April.
    14. Animashaun, Jubril & Awogbemi, Kofoworola A. & Karim, Ramota O. & Emediegwu, Lotanna E., 2023. "Strategic Bias in Willingness to Pay Studies for Traditional Food Products: Anchoring Evidence on Repeated Experiments," 2023 Seventh AAAE/60th AEASA Conference, September 18-21, 2023, Durban, South Africa 365975, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).
    15. Janire Fonseca Peso & Antonia Caro González & Nemanja Milosevic, 2020. "Innovative Co-Creative Participatory Methodologies for a Dreamt-of Quality Education in Europe," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-14, August.
    16. Ferré, Marie & Blundo-Canto, Genowefa & Rodrigues, Geraldo Stachetti & Ramírez-Gómez, María-Margarita & Vedovoto, Graciela Luzia & Agudelo-Chocontá, Beatriz-Elena & Marques, Daniela Vieira & Flores, R, 2025. "Culture of impact in agricultural research organisations: What for and how?," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 54(1).
    17. Horvath, Camille & Koning, Martin & Raton, Gwenaëlle & Combes, François, 2024. "Short food supply chains: The influence of outlet and accessibility on farmer and consumer preferences. Two discrete choice experiments," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 129(C).
    18. Malte Jütting, 2020. "Exploring Mission-Oriented Innovation Ecosystems for Sustainability: Towards a Literature-Based Typology," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-28, August.
    19. Héloïse Berkowitz, 2020. "Participatory Governance for the Development of the Blue Bioeconomy in the Mediterranean Region," Working Papers hal-02555685, HAL.
    20. Rocsana Bucea-Manea-Țoniș & Oliva Maria Dourado Martins & Dragan Ilic & Mădălina Belous & Radu Bucea-Manea-Țoniș & Cezar Braicu & Violeta-Elena Simion, 2020. "Green and Sustainable Public Procurement—An Instrument for Nudging Consumer Behavior. A Case Study on Romanian Green Public Agriculture across Different Sectors of Activity," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-25, December.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:14:p:5825-:d:386940. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.