Abstract
The main trends in agriculture over the past few years have been export orientation and digitalization. Since 2019, the departmental project “Digital Agriculture” has been implemented. In 2021, a draft order of the government of the Russian Federation “On the Strategic Direction in the Field of Digital Transformation of the Agro-Industrial and Fishery Complex of the Russian Federation until 2030” was developed, which provides for development of a national online platform for promoting the agricultural products and the launch of a modeling and forecasting system for the agro-industrial complex. Currently, the beneficiaries of digitalization are large agricultural holdings and the IT industry (manufacturers of sensors and software developers for machinery and equipment, software companies, fertilizer producers and telecom operators). In order for small and medium-sized farms that do not have sufficient resources for end-to-end digitalization of production and business processes to be able to join the innovation race, it is necessary to look for a format of interaction in which competition and cooperation are organically combined. The article discusses one of such forms of association – clusters; explores their potential role in development of platform network architectures; the similarities and differences of cluster and digital industrial systems are analyzed. It is concluded that the flexibility and openness of cluster structures allows actors to find their functional areas and niches and organically fit into the created digital ecosystem of the agro-industrial complex.
Highlights
In the digital economy, the list of cluster policy tasks is expanding: clusters become both subjects of a single digital space and objects of use of digital technologies
Clusters are distinguished by high adaptability, flexibility, allowing them to integrate into network structures and industrial systems, an organic combination of competition and cooperation, developing the ability to work in collaboration, informal relationships between
Digital technologies in agriculture are being introduced pointwise, mainly by large agricultural holdings, which expect that digitalization will allow them to enter a new level of competition
Summary
The list of cluster policy tasks is expanding: clusters become both subjects of a single digital space and objects of use of digital technologies. Their role in development of Industry 4.0, which is fundamentally changing the paradigm of industrial development and blurring the boundaries between companies, sectors and regions, has not yet been fully defined. A number of researchers believe that clusters can become the core of platform network architectures [1, 2, 3]
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