National innovation system plays a crucial role in economic development, yet previous studies are mainly focused on its theoretical framework reviews. From the system’s point of view, it lacks any relevant study on the structural components of the national innovation capability. This study adopts a systematic approach to verify that the national innovation capability is consist of innovation re...

This paper shows how two different theoretical approaches to model innovation adoption, network threshold modeling and random utility modeling, both result in discrete-time hazard models, a popular statistical modeling approach to study innovation adoption and diffusion. The paper emphasizes the need for careful situational analysis prior to model building and illustrates the point with the dif...

If school diffusion of innovation is viewed as complex adaptive process, how shall we prepare school leaders to be effective diffusion decision makers? Coming from the epistemological belief that knowledge is subjective and embodied, this paper proposes to use Agent Based Modeling (ABM) for learning by focus on learning to “do” diffusion of innovation rather than learning about diffusion of inn...

This paper contributes to improvement of innovation management. An idea to be developed into an innovation needs a successfully managed whole invention-innovation-diffusion process. Innovation management remains a complex process. Managers with their specialist ́s narrow viewpoint can hardly be holistic enough. The difference in knowledge, educational level and specialization among entrepreneurs...

The main objective of this paper is to analyze RFID technology as an innovation concept through the lens of the diffusion of innovation theory. Drawing on the extant literature on the diffusion of innovations –with an emphasis on innovation classifications and the “open innovation”–, as well as on an analysis of a longitudinal case study conducted in a Canadian beverage supply chain currently e...

This article examines the diffusion and adoption process of an electronic service delivery innovation, which can be seen as an example of e-policing – called SMS-alert – among Dutch police forces. Important is not only to pay attention to the question how an innovation has spread-and the factors and mechanisms that stimulated or frustrated this process-but also to the reasons why an innovation ...

The present research confirms that during the most recent (2008-) economic crisis, ICT indicators showed deviations from the classical diffusion of innovation trends with regard to individual ICT components. The reason for the deviations should be sought in economic, but also social, cultural, political and other influence factors. During the latest crisis (2008-2011), we thus observed the foll...