Eastwood, CRKnook, JorieTurner, JARenwick, Alan2023-12-052023-01-2420232022-12-190077-9954M1SJ6 (isidoc)https://hdl.handle.net/10182/16659Innovation and technology are a feature of New Zealand’s dairy sector. To overcome current challenges, dairy farmers require agile and multi-dimensional innovation, supported by forward-looking and integrated policy from both the sector and government. In this paper, we outline some of the current dairy sector challenges, and potential technologies to address these challenges. We focus on the future for digital agriculture innovation and discuss policy approaches to enable the sector to leverage digitalisation. These approaches include co-innovation, responsible innovation, multi-scale approaches, micro-innovation and poly-innovation and mission-oriented innovation. Digital agriculture and policy may interact in two ways: (1) policy may be used to enhance digital agriculture innovation and, (2) digitalisation itself may act to enhance agricultural policy design and delivery. Overall, innovation policy requires greater directionality, use of policy bundles and a focus on technology as a mediator of new dairy farming practices and institutional configurations.pp.164-171en© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.data governancedigital agriculturemission-orientated innovationpolicy bundlespoly-innovationJournal Article10.1080/00779954.2022.21619351943-4863ANZSRC::350299 Banking, finance and investment not elsewhere classifiedANZSRC::380199 Applied economics not elsewhere classifiedANZSRC::380101 Agricultural economicsANZSRC::441007 Sociology and social studies of science and technologyANZSRC::350705 Innovation managementANZSRC::3502 Banking, finance and investmentANZSRC::3801 Applied economicshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives