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Diffusion of innovations
About: Diffusion of innovations is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2139 publications have been published within this topic receiving 191397 citations. The topic is also known as: diffusion of innovation & diffusion of innovations theory.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the role of public agencies as adopters of private-sector innovation, focusing on institutions as enablers and as barriers of innovation diffusion, and present an explorative case study: the introduction of a new catheter into the English National Health Service and its diffusion among NHS trusts in England.
Abstract: The role of the public agency as a pacer of private sector innovation has been emphasised over recent years, especially in the context of the EU. The general ambition has been to encourage public agencies to actively stimulate private sector innovation rather than procure existing products. This has triggered an increased interest among researchers and practitioners to identify best practice examples where public agencies have successfully procured innovation. Rather than addressing this demand-oriented perspective, this paper investigates the role of public agencies as adopters of private-sector innovation. Employing an innovation systems perspective, the paper focuses on institutions as enablers and as barriers of innovation diffusion. The paper presents an explorative case study: the introduction of a new catheter into the English National Health Service and its diffusion among NHS trusts in England. Different institutional factors are identified which have had an affect on the catheter’s adoption and diffusion.
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TL;DR: It was found that the self-initiated progression of activities and stimuli has resulted in the successful adoption of a comprehensive IPCP in the Republic of Kiribati.
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TL;DR: A lack of systematic description of implementation design and evaluation and a paucity of in-depth and engaged research to understand stakeholders' pragmatic considerations and the knowledge, messages and meanings that shape clinician and patient decisions to choose biosimilars are observed.
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The Macroeconomic Operation of the Law of Value as mentioned in this paper is a model of cyclical growth and capital accumulation as a competitive-co-operative system, and the Profit-Wage Spiral.
Abstract: The Macroeconomic Operation of the Law of Value. Competition, Co-operation and Diffusion of Innovations. A Model of Cyclical Growth. Capital Accumulation as a Competitive-Co-operative System. The Profit-Wage Spiral. The Emerging Eco-wave. References. Index.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new mathematical approach to the diffusion of energy-efficient technologies is presented using the diffusion process of natural processes as an analogy, and the main advantage offered by the new approach is the incorporation of an average effect of barriers to, and support measures for, innovation.
Abstract: A new mathematical approach to the diffusion of energy-efficient technologies is presented using the diffusion of natural processes as an analogy. This approach is applied to the diffusion of the electric arc furnace in Japan. The main advantage offered by the new approach is the incorporation of an average effect of barriers to, and support measures for, innovation. This approach also incorporates some of the parameters influencing the cost-effectiveness of the investment in the new technology as the main driver for adopting the innovation. The straightforward equivalence between natural phenomena and the diffusion of innovation requires the conceptual abstraction of setting a dimension (and defining) the medium in which the diffusion takes place. This new approach opens new research paths to analysing under what circumstances innovations can take-off, the effect of barriers in the diffusion of energy efficient technologies, or how the diffusion process is incorporated in energy-system models.
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