Agro-Industrial Clusters in the Russian Economy as a Logical Stage of Integration in the Digital Economy

Abstract

The global trend in recent years is the consideration as the main determinant of the competitiveness of national economies NBIC-the synthesis of nano-bio-information technology and cognitive science. Therefore, the issues of digitalization of the agro-industrial complex in the Russian economy are a logical continuation of the national economic policy along the trajectory: modernization-innovationsinformatization-digital economy. The importance of the AIC in the digital economy is determined by a number of factors. First, it is an industry where goods are manufactured that satisfy the primary needs of consumers at the micro level, and the country's economic security at the macro level is ensured. Secondly, it is an industry in which complex transformation processes take place, including trends in the integration of economic actors. The authors consider agro-industrial clusters as a logical stage of integration in the overall digitalization of the economic system. The formation of the digital economy in the short term may become one of the breakthrough directions of the country's development and the interaction of economic entities of the agroindustrial complex in the digital economy should be based on the achievements of scientific and technological progress, the use of information technologies, and the formation of a common information space within agro-industrial clusters. The development of "intelligent" agriculture has the greatest chances in the organizational and economic models of agro-industrial clusters, which include not only forms of interaction between economic entities, but also internal mechanisms of interaction with innovative institutions and technological platforms

Digital platforms as a tool to form the technological basis of digital agriculture

“…The term «information technology» was replaced by the term «digital technology», and the integration of digital tools for the implementation of a wide range of heterogeneous tasks required a transition from traditional information systems to hardware-software complexes of a new type, allowing to implement a set of various digital technologies. In modern scientific literature [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11], the term «digital platforms» has been used to define such hardware and software complexes. Currently, there are several approaches to justifying the functionality and composition of digital platforms: from focus on the universal digital platforms development to creation of digital platforms of narrow specialization.…”