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The book enlightens the most important success factors of the innovative companies and projects supported by EU LEADER policy instrument, related to non-wood forest products. Two companies from Wales dealing with the tea production and willow weaving and one project from Sweden related to the truffle production are analyzed in this book. The results serve as a good example to other entrepreneurs involved with non-wood forest products businesses in Europe and also as a useful material to scientists dealing with the similar topic.

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Marija holds a B.Sc. degree in Landscape Architecture and Forestry from the University of Belgrade in Serbia and double M.Sc. degree from the University of Eastern Finland and the BOKU in Austria. At the moment, she is enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Lisbon in Portugal.

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