Autori
Rabellotti, Roberta
Morrison, Andrea

Titolo
The role of research in wine: the emergence of a regional research area in an italian wine production system.
Periodico
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale 'A. Avogadro' : Facoltà di Economia - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Metodi Quantitativi "SEMEQ" - Quaderni
Anno: 2006 - Volume: 06 - Fascicolo: 6 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 23

In recent years, the wine industry has been involved in a deep process of technological modernisation within which science and investigation have tremendously increased their relevance. In this paper, focusing on the wine regional research system, we intend to provide a detailed account of the structural features of the research and extension institutions acting in the Piedmont region during the last decade as well as of their existing interactions. This latter point is relevant to assess whether a basis of a Regional Research Area already exists. The interest of undertaking this study on the wine regional research system is twofold: top quality wines are indeed a flag product of Piedmont and besides, as stressed before, research and science have recently become key factors of competitiveness in the wine global industry. The empirical analysis is based on detailed interviews to key informers at research centres, universities, extension agencies, business associations and other associations acting as opinion/lobbying groups, undertaken between November 2005 and May 2006. Besides, it draws on a database of all the research projects on relevant topics for the wine industry, funded by the Regional Government of Piedmont in the period 1990-2003, listing all the participating bodies as universities, research labs, business associations and firms.




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