Cahier 21-2005 ROSENBERG’S “LEARNING BY USING” AND TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION
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This paper formulates Rosenberg’s (1982) “learning by using” as a stochastic process. The producer of machines learns from the experience of users. Due to this learning, the quality of machines improves over time. It turns out that the process of this improvement approximately takes an exponential form. This improvement process, combined with the growth of demand due to the improvement, can produce an S-shape diffusion curve of machines. Strong demand and advancement of communication technology increase the diffusion speed. The distributional property of the stochastic process and the implications for inequality across machine users are also explored.
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