Conceptualising the DAIS: Implications of the ‘Digitalisation of Agricultural Innovation Systems’ on technology and policy at multiple levels

Grasping at digitalisation: turning imagination into fact in the sugarcane farming community

“…The digi-MAST framework provides a contribution to help understand complexity in terms of interactions between humans and digital technology and builds on existing four-pronged developmental heuristics—for example DIKW (Janssen et al 2017 ) or critiques of the agricultural technology adoption model utilising aspects of propositions, encounters, dispositions, and responses (Glover et al 2019 ). Conceptualising individual and collective movement through the digi-MAST modes in relation to specific technologies is important in part because the socio-technical transition to digitally enabled agricultural innovation systems will not occur in the short term (Fielke et al 2019 ), nor will the benefits be equitably grasped by agricultural innovation system stakeholders (Jakku et al 2019 ). As such, a mechanism for situating the mode of ‘grasp’ that individuals and collectives have on digital technologies in the present, as well as opportunities that can be created in the future, will be critical to managing digital agtech investment horizons and when weighing up costs against benefits of using a given technology or platform of technologies.…”

“…To jump the chasm of disillusionment and to begin to deliver on the hype of a digitally enabled agricultural innovation system, various individual human actors will need to grasp digital futures (Dufva and Dufva 2019 ; Fielke et al 2019 ). To that end, we used user experience and social science methodologies embedded in technology design cycles as part of the DGBR project meetings to develop the digi-MAST framework, whereby modes were labelled mystery (M), aware (A), spark (S), and transform (T) (for more information on this process see Sect.…”

“…For example, decision-making tools such as ‘SafeGuard’ for pesticides did not seem to gather the traction required to be adopted by the farming community (Queensland Government 2020 ). Combined with an assortment of emerging digital agricultural applications it is timely to reflect on the challenges and opportunities to engage agricultural knowledge and advice network actors with digital technologies in the pursuit of responsible innovation and the implications of these applications moving forward (Fielke et al 2019 ). The digi-MAST framework provides an opportunity to explore these socio-digital processes with greater nuance and recognition of actor agency than the adoption curve heuristic suggests (Douthwaite et al 2001 ; Rogers 2010 ).…”

Areas of placement and specialization in the development of agricultural production management in Russia

“…The pace of sustainable social and economic development of the municipal agricultural sector in the field of accommodation and specialization, which effectiveness must be ensured as soon as possible, can only be achieved through innovation and investment trajectory, while it is necessary to fundamentally change the organizational, economic and production conditions for the formation of production with the introduction of digital intensification based on the use of modern high-end technologies. All this is possible only with the introduction of an adaptive system of strategic planning and forecasting, in which it is necessary to strive not only to realize the various potentials available in the field of agricultural production, but also to deepen them both in quantitative and qualitative performance [6][7]. Due to the fact that the final municipal agricultural product is an economic orientation and is the target function of agricultural business, the basis for fulfilling strategic tasks by an agricultural organization with a choice of the main strategic directions will be more efficient use of the potential of existing opportunities, as a result of which a new or improved agricultural product shall be created with the highest consumer value and which shall be identified as a municipal agricultural product strategic development with the use of more efficient distribution and specialization of agricultural production.…”

Innovative Development Management In Agribusiness

“…Innovative development management of the Russian agribusiness industry involves the effective use of scientific and technical potential, integration of science, education and production, and technological economy modernization based on innovative technologies. As digitalization changes agriculture, it is necessary to consider the consequences of cumulative innovation processes in order to reduce risks and benefit from opportunities (Fielke et al, 2019). The solution of this complex task requires arrangement of appropriate conditions: adequate infrastructure for innovation activities or a set of material, technical, legislative and other means that provide information, expert, financial, personnel and other services for innovation activities.…”