Geoinformation Modeling of Knowledge Spillovers as an Innovative Development and Agricultural Efficiency Factor

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of spatial regularity of knowledge spillovers in agriculture as an innovative development factor based on the use of geoinformation modeling methods. The spatial localization of  patents development in the agricultural sector and the main regions of their citations have been analyzed which characterizes the secondary effects of knowledge dissemination. It was found that references to agricultural patents at the initial stage in most cases coincide with the areas of new knowledge generation. During the subsequent period this narrow localization of citations disappears and their distribution area expands significantly. The use of GIS technologies and geoinformation modeling allowed us to visualize the process of knowledge spillovers in the agricultural sector and to reveal the spatio-temporal patterns of agricultural innovative knowledge dissemination in various regions of Russia. The influence of knowledge spillovers in agriculture on the efficiency of agricultural production has been analyzed for the first time. We have discovered the dependence of patent activity in agriculture on the general level of regions innovative development. A typology of Russian regions on innovative functions based on the ratio of registered and used patents in agriculture was carried out. In accordance with this three types of regions have been distinguished – creative, acceptor-creative and acceptor. Within the identified types of regions, differences in the efficiency of agriculture were revealed that testify their close dependence both on the ratio of creative and acceptor functions and on the general level of regions innovative development.