Recognizing and Analyzing the Effective Structures on Sustainable Entrepreneurship with a Cost-Effective Innovation Approach in the Development of Palm Conversion and Complementary Industries
Subject Areas : Promoting and developing entrepreneurial culture
Neda Baniasadi
1
,
Somaee Naghavi
2
1 - Agricultural Development Department, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food Industry, Tehran University of Science and Research, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jiroft, Jiroft, Iran
Keywords: Cost-Effective Innovation, Palmconversion and Complementary Industries, Sustainable Entrepreneurship,
Abstract :
Sustainable entrepreneurship presents the impact of the inherent complexities of simultaneously producing social, environmental and economic value, as well as considering the needs of future generations. Cost-effective innovation is an innovative solution to limited resources for the production of goods and services and low-cost products. while providing quality to meet the needs of low-income customers living in resource-constrained environments. This research deals with the relationship between sustainable entrepreneurship and cost-effective innovation in date processing and complementary industries. It has been collected using statistics and information for date processing and supplementary industries units that are active in three fields of marketing, packaging and processing of date products in Kerman province. To analyze the results of research using SPSS software and structural analysis using Amos software and the role of cost-effective innovation in the development of sustainable business processes in date processing and finishing industries has been investigated. In cost-effective innovation, "Environmental" factor has the highest effect of 0.61, "Social" factor with factor loads of 0.18 has the lowest effect, and "Date product processing" factor has the highest effect with factor load of 0.95 and packaging has the lowest effect with factor load of 0.74. in sustainable entrepreneurship in transformation and complementary industries