ROLUL STRUCTURILOR COOPERATISTE ÎN PIAȚA TRANSFERULUI DE CUNOAȘTERE
THE COOPERATIVE STRUCTURES’ ROLE IN THE KNOWLEDGE MARKET

Author(s): Maria Claudia Preda (Diaconeasa)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy, General Reference Works, Geography, Regional studies
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: cooperative structures; agricultural cooperatives; knowledge transfer; sustainable development; agricultural policy
Summary/Abstract: The paper has an interdisciplinary approach, leaving the pure economical circumscription through its social, behavioural and adaptive facets. Agricultural cooperatives are capable of responding both to the members’needs, according to their principles and to the researchers projections of sustainable rural development. The involvement of the rural area in the knowledge market is generally wanted. The present paper proves that cooperative structures have a significant role in achieving that goal, under some restrictions. Knowledge transfer isn’t an objective itself, it is a process approached on two sections: for the authorities, the scope of the process should be favoring the sustainable development in the agrifood sector, and for the farmers it helps with the understanding sustainable agriculture as an opportunity of a long term activity. These results can be achieved through medium and large size farmers’ cooperation, capable of engaging the informational resource in the decisional process. For this reason the rural development policies should be differentiated considering the farms’ size.

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