The Innovative Approaches to Packaging – Comparison Analysis of Intelligent and Active Packaging Perceptions in Slovakia

Loucanova Erika (), Kalamarova Martina () and Jan Parobek
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Loucanova Erika: Technical University in Zvolen, The Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technologies, Department of Marketing, Trade and World Forestry, Zvolen, Slovak Republic
Kalamarova Martina: Technical University in Zvolen, The Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technologies, Department of Marketing, Trade and World Forestry, Zvolen, Slovak Republic

Studia Universitatis „Vasile Goldis” Arad – Economics Series, 2017, vol. 27, issue 2, 33-44

Abstract: Packaging has always served a practical function - to hold goods together and protect it when moving toward the customer through distribution channel. Today packaging is also a container for promoting the product and making it easier and safer to use. The sheer importance of packaging functions is still growing and consequently the interest of the company is to access to the packaging more innovative and creative. The paper deals with the innovative approaches to packaging resulting in the creation of packaging with interactive active features in the form of active and intelligent packaging. Using comparative analysis, we monitored the perception of the active packaging functions in comparison to intelligent packaging function among different age categories. We identified the age categories which are most interested in these functions.

Keywords: innovation; active packaging; intelligent packaging; functions of packaging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/sues-2017-0007

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