Acta Innovations

13-23

Authors: Grażyna Paulina Wójcik, Jakub Woźniak

The authors analysed investment risk of a wind farm construction in Poland. They specified key risk factors of investment projects and instruments that eliminate or minimize their impact. The article describes also methods that enable to estimate an impact of risk on profitability of the project. This paper is based on a number of newspapers, research articles and reports. The investment in a wind farm construction due to, among others, a long period of repayment, legal turmoil on green energy, is exposed to a number of factors that may affect profitability of the investment.

35-44

Authors: Sebastian Białoskurski

The article presents the problem of new food products in the context of their evaluation in terms of the expectations of final buyers. The author of the article has performed a comparative analysis of food products currently offered against the expectations of final buyers. In addition, the research made it possible to ascertain the characteristics new food products should have in order to better meet the needs of food buyers. In this way, the article outlines potential directions of the activities of providers in shaping new food products. The research was carried out among Polish final food buyers. The research sample included two selected voivodeships (Lubelskie and Mazowieckie).

51-56

Authors: Tomasz Podeszwa

This article presents the aspects of the activity of home brewers from the area of beer production on a micro scale. The first part discusses the market conditions affecting the growing popularity of non-commercial beers and the essence of craft, contractor and restaurant breweries. The second part describes the innovations emerging in the industry, not only in terms of new technologies and recipes, but also in building home brewer communities and their education through forums and dedicated websites. It also presents the initiatives supporting domestic brewing, coordinated by the Polish Home Brewers Association (Polskie Stowarzyszenie Piwowarów Domowych) (e.g. competitions, festivals, sensory courses). The multi-aspect analysis of the activities of home brewers revealed that the most important result of their self-education has been the “beer revolution”, going on since 2011, which has paved the way and enabled the commercial emergence of new taste offers, different from the typical light lager beer.