Spatial Analysis of Innovations Diffusion in the Agricultural Sector

摘要

The article presents the results of spatial analysis of innovations diffusion in the agriculture of the Russian Federation regions based on the use of GIS technologies. The research includes traditional and mathematical methods as well as geoinformation-cartographic modeling. This paper presents various aspects of innovative development and innovative processes in the regions of Russia by constructing and analyzing geoinformation-cartographic models of various complexity. To illustrate innovations diffusion a series of analytical base and resulting maps have been obtained. Additionally, the results of GIS mapping are presented in the form of animated maps and cartographic animations reflecting the territorial distribution of innovations. The spatial geoinformation-cartographic analysis of innovations geographical distribution as well as the direction of their diffusion processes reveals a number of objective patterns of their distribution. Primarily, in the space-time continuum of country's agricultural sector innovations shift from nuclei and sub-nuclei to innovative sub-periphery and peripherals. Geographically it happens in the direction from the largest cities that are at the same time the leading scientific and technical centers as well as from the areas of intensive agriculture, towards mostly eastern and northern regions of the European part of Russia, Siberia and the Far East. In addition, GIS technologies allowed to form cartographic and attribute databases that are key indicators of innovative development, to construct and analyze geoinformational and cartographic models of territorial innovative agricultural systems at the regional level and reveal the processes of innovations diffusion.