This paper illustrates why existing technology acceptance models are only of limited use for predicting and explaining the adoption of future information and communication technologies. It starts with a general overview over technology adoption processes, and presents several theories for the acceptance as well as adoption of traditional information technologies. This is followed by an overview...

Innovation is a key for the growth, productivity, competitiveness, survival, and profitability in the today’s competitive world. This paper examines the relevant aspects of literature on invention and innovation concepts, including characteristics of innovation, types of innovation, diffusion of innovation, innovation process, types of innovators, importance of innovation, tools and techniques ...

A fundamental question related to innovation diffusion is how the social network structure influences the process. Empirical evidence regarding real-world influence networks is very limited. On the other hand, agent-based modeling literature reports different and at times seemingly contradictory results. In this paper we study innovation diffusion processes for a range of Watts-Strogatz network...

In this paper an approximate innovation method is introduced for the estimation of diffusion processes given a set of discrete and noisy observations of some of their components. The method is based on a recent extension of Local Linearization filters to the general case of continuous-discrete state space models with multiplicative noise. This filtering method provides adequate approximations f...

X iv :1 60 7. 01 26 5v 1 [ ph ys ic s. so cph ] 1 J ul 2 01 6 Innovation diffusion equations on correlated scale-free networks M.L. Bertotti ∗,1 J. Brunner †,2 and G. Modanese ‡1 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bolzano, Italy TIS Innovation Park, Bolzano, Italy We introduce a heterogeneous network structure into the Bass diffusion model, in order to study th...

Diffusion of Innovation (products and services) has become comprehensive and complex in last three decades. Consumers are divulged to many influences and religiosity is one of them, which mainly remained uncovered. Up to now few researchers conducted research to find the relationship between Religiosity and Diffusion rate of Innovation. This research paper aims to investigate the relationship b...

This study surveys the receptivity of Singaporean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the adoption of electronic commerce. Utilising a portion of Rogers' model of innovation diffusion as the framework and treating electronic commerce (EC) as a form of new innovation, we analyse factors affecting EC diffusion. A multiple regression analysis is carried out, with the five attributes of in...

This article shows that Medical Innovation—the landmark study by Coleman, Katz, and Menzel—and several subsequent studies analyzing the diffusion of the drug tetracycline have confounded social contagion with marketing effects. The article describes the medical community’s understanding of tetracycline and how the drug was marketed. This situational analysis finds no reasons to expect social co...