The successful adoption of digital innovations in agricultural production systems is based on the proactive participation of all stakeholders and represents an important step in establishing resilient agri-food chains and creating sustainable value. The key tool for the creation of sustainable value is integrating the nine aspects of the business process (cooperation; inclusion; financing; diversification; communication; policies; knowledge with entrepreneurship; and production) by re-using of open governmental and public endeavours data as well as by the contractual sharing. The objectives of this research are to identify stakeholders in the Croatian agricultural system, and to explore their roles and their potential for data supply and needs for data uptake. Open access repositories were queried to identify stakeholders. Direct observation methods and semi-structured conservational qualitative interviews were used for stakeholder characterisation and data flow detection. Stakeholder importance with respect to current data supply was analysed. Underdeveloped data flow relationships in the agricultural data ecosystem in Croatia could be built in a spontaneous process following the data opening of the Research and Consumer group of stakeholders and promoting data sharing initiatives of the early adopters in the Supplier group. In that way, data opening would be the driver of the effective cooperation creation required for sustainable value creation but also the adoption of the best management practices, sustainable solutions and digital development.@en

Open data is critical for digital innovation in the sector of agriculture. We aimed to identify the four key elements of the open data ecosystem for the agricultural domain in Croatia. 357 data files available via the Croatian Open data portal, the internet pages of the Ministry of agriculture, the Croatian agency for agriculture and food, as well as the Paying Agency for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development were analysed. The main G2B publishers of the agriculture domain have not yet reached their potential in opening data. There are still many raw and aggregated datasets not openly available. The published data lack a suitable format for data linking and information on licencing.@en

The current readiness of the agricultural sector in Croatia to transform is limited. Creating and using an open data ecosystem in which data truly is the main force of the innovation process offers an opportunity to strengthen cooperation in this sector. The stakeholders of the agricultural data ecosystem in Croatia were not investigated until now. The main goal of this paper was to identify key stakeholder groups in the Croatian agricultural data ecosystem using a complex query. Five groups of stakeholders with different roles were identified. Their needs are focused on greater cooperation in the sector and they all strive for the economic, environmental, and social sustainability.@en