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.

Innovation diffusion in healthcare networks: The role of boundary-spanners and gatekeepers in a bottom-up approach to innovation diffusion

Abstract: Summary This paper investigates the roles of boundary-spanners and gatekeepers during the diffusion of innovation where a bottom-up approach to innovation diffusion has been employed, presenting the results of an in-depth investigation of a complex healthcare network within NHS England. Employing a case study approach, we identify the key roles played by boundary-spanners and gatekeepers in orchestrating the process of innovation diffusion. Based on these findings, the research suggests that, when supporting innovation diffusion in complex healthcare networks it is important that key actors are identified that can champion the diffusion of innovations throughout the healthcare network. Keywords: Innovation diffusion, boundary-spanners, gatekeepers, healthcare networks

A percolation model of multi-technology diffusion: information feedbacks, learning economies and subsidy policy

Abstract: This paper deals with the diffusion of innovations in a multi-technology setting. High up-front costs of adoption, heterogeneity among potential adopters, network interactions, information feedbacks and subsidy policies are reproduced by an agent-based percolation model of multi-technology diffusion. In our model a new technology incorporated in a final product ready to be commercialized may spread in a market of heterogeneous consumers who decide whether to adopt it or not depending on both the net benefit from adoption and on locally available information. A new desirable technology, characterized by a high up-front cost of adoption, may not be able to overcome the obstacles to its diffusion despite potential future cost reductions. It may fail to spread in the market because of the pressure from its competitors (i.e. other technologies that serve a similar function) or because heterogeneity among potential adopters confine the spread of useful information to isolated sub-communities. We ask if a subsidy policy would trigger a self-sustained diffusion of a desirable technology. We run the model in two specific network topologies: bidimensional regular lattice and small world network. We show that a) information feedbacks and learning economies give raise to a positive feedback loop almost independently on the topology of the network: more information feedbacks ® decrease in price ® higher probability of conquering potential adopters ® more information feedbacks etc; b) market dominance depends on the probability of the initial adopters to belong to an expanding cluster which is a function of both the network topology and heterogeneity of potential adopters; c) in a multi-technology setting a subsidy policy should be set not only according to future costs reduction and heterogeneity but also to competition and technologies interdependence: reaching the necessary critical mass of diffusion may depend on how successfully the overall spread of other undesirable technologies is prevented

The Closing Educational Gap in E-privacy Management in European Perspective:

Abstract: Educational gaps are increasingly salient as skills and knowledge gain prominence in digital societies. E-privacy management, namely, the ability to control the flow of information about the self, ...