The international literature has dealt extensively with innovativeness, both in theory, as well as in a pleiad of empiric studies. Radical innovations encompass high quality action that contributes to the creation of new sectors, products or markets. Cooper (1998) adds that as long as innovations become more radical, they lead to evident and risky removal from existing practices. It is obvious ...

This article highlights mechanisms that may further sustainable technological development for the 21st century. The distributional effects associated with the adoption and diffusion of health care technologies are addressed wherein the capacity to capitalize on the health gains from the adoption of technology varies in society. These effects are caused by the actions of individuals as they segm...

We review the recent literature on technological change and diffusion to shed new light on the evolution of the world’s cross-country income distribution. Technology is viewed as non-rival knowledge in the sense that firms in more than one country can simultaneously use it. R&D investments generate often also a return outside the innovating firm itself; these knowledge externalities are called ...

Using a theoretical framework extracted from thetechnological innovation theories, this research attempts to explain factors influencing the adoption and diffusion of telemedicine utilising the video conferencing technology (TMVC) for dermatology within health Waikato (HW) in New Zealand. Findings indicate weak presence of critical assessment into technological innovation factors prior to TMVC ...

In this paper, some of the main results of an interdisciplinary research project on standards are presented and integrated into a single framework of technology diffusion. Based on network effect theory and diffusion theory, we present an agent-based simulation model that extends the traditional economical network perspective by incorporating structural determinants of networks (centrality, top...

We propose a new conceptual model for understanding technological evolution that identifies the impact of social (e.g., market, economic, and political forces) and technological forces. We build on theories from technological forecasting, technology evolution, and innovation research to develop the concept of a technology ecosystem. By considering the influence of social forces, technical force...

The hard disk drive industry has been under great cost pressures. Manufacturing has achieved very high levels of efficiencies and there is hardly any room for reducing costs any further by improving manufacturing. An area worth exploring is the design of the hard drives to further reduce the costs. Modular design helps in developing designs that will be amenable to cost reductions by identifyin...

Technological Innovation, Financial Fragility and Complex Dynamics In this paper we suggest a scaling approach to business cycles. We develop a heterogeneous interacting agents (HIAs) model that replicates well known industrial dynamics stylized facts, as the power law distribution of firms’ size and the Laplace distribution of firms’ growth rates. In particular, the power law is a persistent b...

Recent technological advances have enabled distributed information gathering from a given region by deploying a large number of networked tiny microsensors which are low power devices equipped with programmable computing, multiple sensing and communication capability thus forms Wireless Sensor networks. Directed Diffusion is a data centric routing protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). It ...

This paper presents a panel study of yield developments in the eight main crops over the period from 1961 to 1999 and shows that for most crops, there is absolute convergence to developed-country levels over that time period. Where convergence fails to occur, this can be explained by the exceptionally low rate of diffusion of innovations from developed to developing countries for some crops. We...