Innovative Approach for the Agriculture Development. Case Study of South-East Europe

Abstract

Romania might receive in future years an important role in ensuring food security of theEuropean Union and of other countries in the region, under the conditions of solving internalproblems related to productivity and competitiveness in agriculture. An important role in thiscontext has the innovative method of agricultural development, which promotes a system in whichthe actors involved interact to generate and use knowledge related to agriculture, in the processesof socio-economic relevance, and in an appropriate institutional framework. A current form ofinnovation system applied also by agriculture is the networking activity between the actorsinvolved, transposed in emerging clusters (during different projects or occurring spontaneously)and mature clusters. Romanian entrepreneurs followed the good practices met in the field, also inagriculture - especially those from South East Europe, of economic clustering. The paper focusedon the most representative results collected during author’s projects.

Keywords

• innovative system
• economic cluster
• sustainable agriculture