Continuous technological development has created new ways of utilising IT in the public sector. However, the use of information technology is still to a large degree in its infancy in early childhood education. The study focuses on the adoption of IT innovations within early childhood education context in Finland. IT innovations can be used for instance in communication between different actors...

The process of adopting new innovations has been studied for over 30 years, and one of the most popular adoption models is described by Rogers in his book, Diffusion of Innovations (Sherry & Gibson, 2002). Much research from a broad variety of disciplines has used the model as a framework. Dooley (1999) and Stuart (2000) mentioned several of these disciplines as political science, public health...

Many countries, regions and education districts in the world have experimented with models of one-device-perstudent as an enabler of new or effective pedagogies supported by mobile technologies. Researchers have also designed innovations or interventions for possible adoption by schools or for informal learning. Of critical interest to the community is the question of how the more successful of...

Service organizations such as retails banks are attempting to increase their customers' lifetime value through the introduction of service innovations such as integrated banking. To date, these efforts have met with mixed success. This research proposes that strategic consideration of barriers to adoption can significantly alter and enhance the effectiveness of segmentation and communication ef...

Boz, I., 2014. Determination of best management practices and innovations in beef cattle farming and their adoption in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Turkey. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 20: 552-562 The primary purpose of this study was to determine best management practices and innovations in beef cattle farming and their adoption in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of Turkey. A stratified rando...

In thinking about the diffusion of innovation, one tends to overlook the obvious fact that not all innovations are adopted by, or are intended to be adopted by, individuals. In the first place, different sorts of innovations may "require" different units of adoptionfor example, "it takes two to tango." In the second place, different cultural or situational norms may "prescribe" different units ...

Mobile technology and smartphone apps have seen widespread adoption in recent years. Many uses of these technologies are intended for the general public, but some uses are specific to particular domains. These technologies are innovative and worthy of study within specific domains using diffusion of innovations theory. This paper examines the diffusion of these technologies in a unique domain, ...