Approach to evaluation of the digitalization level in crop production of the Pskov region

DOI

10.2991/ispc-19.2019.24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

digitalization, agriculture, cost structure, factors of innovativeness, activity rate

Abstract

Development and improvement of the State Science, Technology and Innovation policy, designed to accelerate the processes of digitalization, should be based on qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the current state of the regional and sectoral economy. The diversity of evaluation methods, which assume the usage of a wide range of statistics, reporting indicators and expert opinions, makes it difficult to make the necessary estimations. This process is even more complicated when it comes to evaluation of the digitalization level. The authors of this article propose an approach to evaluation of the digitalization level in crop production, which is about determining the strength of the factors of innovativeness changed by digitalization. It is suggested that the difference between growth factors of innovativeness (the share of costs for maintenance of capital assets and elite seeds in cost structure) and factors of decrease of innovativeness (the share of labor costs, electricity and petroleum products) should determine the digitalization level and the degree of innovative activity of production activity of agricultural enterprises. Only those agricultural producers who have a difference between growth factors and factors of decrease of innovativeness greater than zero should be called the innovation-active, and, therefore, having a potentially high digitalization level of business processes. Evaluation of the digitalization level on the basis of a limited amount of industry information – information about the cost structure of products – makes it highly probable to use the suggested approach in the practice of decision making on regional and sectoral levels.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ivan Voiku
AU  - Ivan Sandu
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - Approach to evaluation of the digitalization level in crop production of the Pskov region
BT  - Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Digital agriculture - development strategy” (ISPC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 111
SN  - 1951-6851
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