Abstract
Currently, the economies of most developed countries in the world are at the stage of digital transformation. Daily streams of information data contain various innovations, nanotechnologies, business projects, and know-hows. Smart technologies are turning out to be faster, more compact, more efficient, and more powerful every year and are becoming the key to solving problems in various fields of activity. The agricultural sector is no exception. Over the past decade, the agro-industrial complex has undergone numerous changes as part of government projects on implementation of IT systems designed to solve a wide range of tasks, to search for new technologies of manufacturing environmentally friendly and safe products, thereby expanding possibilities for the agricultural market to enter a new level of international trade.
Highlights
One of the first English-language works devoted to the digital economy was a book by D
Official documents interpret the concept of ‘digital economy’ in the same way. Such documents include the ‘Strategy for the Development of Information Society in the Russian Federation for 2017–2030’, where digital economy is interpreted as ‘an economic order characterized by transition to a qualitatively new level of use of information and telecommunication technologies in all spheres of socio-economic activity’ [6 ]
Considering the volume of investments in agricultural sciences in Russia, it should be noted that at the end of 2018 it amounted to $ 275 million, comparing these data with the volume of investments in agricultural sciences abroad, we can conclude that this is almost 60 times less than in the United States; at the same time, it should be added that in this country private business provides the bulk of investments, its share in the total cost of agricultural sciences is over 75%, while in the Russian Federation this indicator does not reach the level of 10% [12]
Summary
One of the first English-language works devoted to the digital economy was a book by D. Scholz, published in 2017, entitled ‘Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy’ focusing on the challenges of the workforce employed by digital giants such as Uber and Amazon. It is worth noting the publication by B. Several general studies have been carried out, in which digital economy is considered as a new stage in the economy development These are, for example, the works by S.A. Zhironkin (2015) (digitalization is presented as a way to overcome degenerative processes in the domestic economy), N.I. Antipina (2018) (description of the transformation of Russian business in a new era), K.A. Semyachkova (2018) (changes in the public sector caused by digital economy), etc. The impact of digitalization on university education system is discussed, in particular, by Shashlo N.V., Petruk G.V. (2017), Efimov V.S., Lapteva A.V. (2018), Bolgova E.V., Grodskaya G N., Kournikova M.V. (2019)
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