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Title: | Productivity and Economic Analysis of a New Intensive Collector in the Portuguese Market with Implication of Open Innovation Perspective | Authors: | Serrinha, Vera Correia, Sérgio D. Marques, Gastão |
Keywords: | natural resources; bee venom production; productivity analysis; profitability analysis; product development | Issue Date: | 2019 | Publisher: | MDPI | Serial title, monograph or event: | Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity | Volume: | 5 | Issue: | 3 | Abstract: | Bee venom is a sub-product of the beekeeping activity, and has a wide field of applications in several pivotal markets. Nevertheless, its collection is not an activity disseminated among Portuguese beekeepers, as its production is marginal. There are limited empirical studies on the production and the technical aspects involved in this type of activity. Our study, therefore, contributes to narrowing this knowledge gap, by analyzing and comparing the productivity and profitability of two bee venom collection techniques. The first involves equipment available on the market, and the second involves a new device developed from the aim of the present work. Concerning market knowledge, a questionnaire was given to a sample of beekeepers, to understand and characterize the market’s needs and the level of information about bee venom. Because of the growing market interest in this product, a new collector is proposed, based on a set of intensive frame collectors strategically placed inside the beehives. The improvements obtained were increased production, either in terms of quantity or quality, obtaining a positive profitability. To evaluate the productivity of the proposed equipment, a comparison was performed, in an apiary, between existing state-of-the-art equipment and the proposed intensive collector. In a second stage, the profitability of the new proposed equipment was analyzed, using a comparative method between incomes and costs associated with both solutions. The results obtained showed that the new intensive collector enables a profitable collection of bee venom in Portugal, despite its higher initial investment. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/107127 | ISSN: | 21998531 | DOI: | 10.3390/joitmc5030071 | Rights: | openAccess |
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