The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the dynamic process when two competitive innovations diffuse simultaneously in the small world network. To illustrate the micro diffusion process, an agent-based modeling and simulation method is applied. In the agent based model, there are two competitive innovations. Agents make decisions to adopt one of the innovations according to the utility val...

This note analyses the adoption and diffusion of innovations in a horizontally differentiated Cournot duopoly in which firms have to choose the dates for adopting a cost-reducing new technology like in Reinganum (1981a). We prove that product differentiation crucially matters in the diffusion pattern of the innovation and in the comparison between the adoption timing in the decentralized econom...

BACKGROUND Many beneficial health care interventions are either not put into practice or fail to diffuse over time due to complex contextual factors that affect implementation and diffusion. Bariatric surgery is an example of an effective intervention that recently experienced a plateau and decrease in rates, with minimal documented justification for this trend. While there are conceptual model...

Diffusion of innovations and knowledge is in most cases accounted for by the logistic model. Fieldwork research however constantly report that empirical data utterly deviate from this mathematical function. This chapter scrutinizes network forcing of diffusion process. The departure of empirical data from the logistic function is explained by social network discreteness, heterogeneity and aniso...

This paper provides new evidence on the objectives and determinants of different types of innovations and patents, environmental as opposed to other innovations and patents, and different variants of environmental innovations and patents. We investigate how firm-specific and sector-specific driving forces differ by innovation type. Moreover, we outline the functions that different innovation ty...

Institutional involvement has been determinant in the diffusion of technological innovations, however little attention has been given to institutional intervention in the adoption and diffusion of e-commerce in SMEs. This study investigates the role of government in the adoption and diffusion of e-commerce in small and medium size enterprises. King et al. (1994) framework of institutional facto...

The growth and diffusion of self-service technology (SST) over the last decade has resulted in an increasing number of business and government transactions being completed without human assistance. One innovation in this area, the speech-enabled business system, is characterised by complex implementations that bring together language processing technologies, applications development and end-use...

A doption of scientific innovations, including drugs, devices, and techniques, is critical to the advancement of safe and efficacious healthcare. Often, however, disconnects between scientific evidence and clinical practice are observed with less supported innovations being widely adopted and those with stronger data underused. Popularized by the sociologist Rogers 1,2 in 1962, the diffusion of...