Social innovation is a topic that has rapidly gained visibility during the last decades, where public organizations, private companies, and community groups are interested in developing more efficient and effective solutions to important societal challenges, such as poverty, demographic change, climate change, and unemployment. The University has been recognized for a long-time as a place of learning and academ...
Wine consumption is an integral part of Portuguese life and culture. Wine is considered an “information-intensive” product, as its quality can an only be evaluated post-consumption. The complexity of wine market renders the choice of wine as a risky decision for most consumers. The decision-making process is very complex and involve a number of wine features combined with consumers’ specific characteristics, su...
The challenges in the patterns of wine consumption worldwide suggest the presence of new consumers with specific cultural backgrounds, different purchasing habits, behaviour and preferences. In this scenario, the understanding of consumer behavior is a crucial tool for wine firms and managers, especially in traditionally producing and consuming countries such as Portugal. Mirror of a long history of production ...
After 23 years, the APDR’s Annual Congress returns to the University of Beira Interior, for positioning intellectual capital and regional development as a key theme for public policies and the agenda of the collaborative community of politicians, entrepreneurs, researchers and citizens interested in promoting endogenous growth, combined with the institutions, systems and new functional and integrative type desi...
Em todo o mundo, o mercado do vinho está a sofrer alterações fundamentais, cada vez mais competitivo, com a entrada de novas empresas produtoras de vinho. O vinho do Porto é um marco do vinho português. É um vinho fortificado produzido na Região Demarcada do Douro (uma das primeiras regiões vitivinícolas demarcadas e regulamentadas do mundo) em condições físicas e humanas muito específicas. O presente trabalho ...
This paper aims to ascertain the efficacy and acceptability of five incentive schemes for the take-back of waste electrical and electronic equipment in Portugal, focusing in consumers' perspectives. It assesses users' perception of these items, evaluating the motivations and interests they have concerning the market of waste electrical and electronic equipment. Results indicate, on one hand, a lack of awareness...
Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar os determinantes da decisão de entrega dos EEE em fim de vida para reciclagem, avaliando as motivações e os interesses dos utilizadores destes equipamentos em relação ao mercado de retoma dos EEE em Fim de Vida. Os resultados obtidos indicam que existe uma falta de sensibilidade dos consumidores para o processo de retoma dos seus equipamentos. Por outro lado, mostram que a...
Atualmente assiste-se a uma maior comercialização de Equipamentos Elétricos e Eletrónicos, dado o avanço tecnológico dos últimos anos. Este crescimento levou à produção de enormes quantidades de resíduos de equipamentos elétricos e eletrónicos com valor económico e um elevado impacto ambiental. O presente trabalho pretende averiguar a estrutura de mercado dos resíduos de equipamentos elétricos e eletrónicos, em...