Synergy of National Agricultural Innovation Systems

Dan Wang, Xu Du, Jian Sun, Xiangyu Guo and Yao Chen
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Dan Wang: Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Xu Du: Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Jian Sun: Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Xiangyu Guo: Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Yao Chen: Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-20

Abstract: Synergy among the various components of national agricultural innovation systems (AISs) promotes agricultural development. This paper investigated the innovation synergy among the various innovation elements of national AISs. First, we developed a synergy analysis model consisting of three innovation variables (innovation allocation, innovation output, and innovation potentiality) and one control variable (government policy supports). Secondly, a broad set of innovation indicators was selected to describe the innovation variables and the control variable, and the solutions of the order parameter equation were then calculated to investigate the self-organized synergistic patterns of a panel of the Group of Twenty (G20) countries. The empirical results indicated the following. (1) All of the G20 countries’ national AISs had the potential to evolve into more advanced self-organized synergistic states under current government policy support. Furthermore, all of the developing countries were in the active period of synergy, showing stronger synergistic rising powers. However, most of the developed countries were in the stable or general period of synergy, in which synergistic rising powers were relatively weaker; (2) Stronger government policy supports played a positive role in promoting the interaction and collaboration among innovation elements and promoted the national AIS to evolve into a more advanced self-organized synergistic state. This study has important implications for understanding the complex innovation synergy of national AISs, as well as for the design and implementation of agricultural innovation strategies for policy-makers.

Keywords: agricultural innovation; innovation system; innovation synergy; the Group of Twenty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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