20.500.12556/DKUM-86923 Challenges of Commercial Aquaponics in Europe beyond the Hype In recent years, aquaponics has been receiving increased interest globally as a commercial food production technology and aquaponics start up companies have been formed in most European countries. Between 2014 and 2018, the European-funded COST Action FA1305 “The EU Aquaponics Hub Realising Sustainable Integrated Fish and Vegetable Production for the EU” created a strong network of researchers and entrepreneurs. However, surveys show that the aquaponic production in Europe is still very limited, and very few companies are economically viable. In order to obtain insights into the barriers to early development of commercial aquaponics, two surveys were carried out—one in Europe, which included France, and one in France alone, with a different protocol. Henceforth, for simplicity, the former will be referred to as Europe and the latter as France. The results reveal that the development of commercial aquaponics has hit the level of “disillusionment”, caused by numerous challenges facing commercial food production. As the understanding of the processes involved in aquaponics is increasing, it will be very interesting to follow the developments in the field over the coming years in order to ascertain whether aquaponics will follow the phases outlined by the “Gartner’s Hype Cycle” and thus proceed to become an established technology, or whether it will remain an “one hit wonder” and disappear in the “Trough of Disillusionment”. aquaponics innovation adoption Gartnerʹs Hype Cycle Europe akvaponika prevzem inovacij Gartnerjev cikel popularnosti Evropa true false true MDPI Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2024-01-29 13:37:42 2024-01-29 14:19:25 2024-01-30 03:10:55 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020 0 0 Str. 1-18 Št. 1, št. članka 306 Letn. 12 Jan. 2020 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2019-12-13 2020-01-13 2020-01-20 303:631.338 2048349011 10.3390/w12010306 2073-4441 Challenges_of_Commercial_Aquaponics_Turnsek_2020.pdf Challenges_of_Commercial_Aquaponics_Turnsek_2020.pdf 1 693657CF1341BD4FBEE36EB2C161E4D0 3888fbd728cd72e03fe94289ced8d987b6e034fcf3a809d4b1e0f4827575c048 d39ca8f2-bea8-11ee-aae6-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=175735 https://doi.org/10.3390/w12010306 0 e60b4326-bea8-11ee-aae6-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=175736 Fakulteta za turizem 0 0 0