This article builds on punctuated equilibrium theory to evaluate the diffusion of public policy innovations in the United States. The article argues that punctuated equilibrium theory provides a unifying framework for understating three mechanisms leading to the diffusion of innovations: gradual policy diffusion driven by incremental policy emulation, rapid state-to-state diffusion driven by po...

Researchers embracing agent-based microsimulation models often criticize the inability of urban equilibrium models to reflect spatial heterogeneity and transitional dynamics. These limitations are major barriers for land use and transportation planners who may wish to apply urban economic models in regular planning processes. To this end, this paper extends Anas’ spatial computable general equi...

Newly-discovered materials have been central to recent technological advances. They have contributed significantly to breakthroughs in electronics, renewable energy and green buildings, and overall, have promoted the advancement of global human welfare. Yet, only a fraction of all possible materials have been explored. Accelerating the pace of discovery of materials would foster technological i...

In the past decades technological innovations in many scientific fields, such as molecular biology, biochemistry electrophysiology and histochemistry have facilitated enormously the degree of resolution of independent variables, in addition to accelerating the production of results and read-out parameters. Consequently, this has resulted in new scientific insights. Similarly, a lot of technolog...

In this paper, we consider the application of the Lotka–Volterra model with churn effects, LVch, (Guidolin and Guseo, 2015) to the case of a confectionary product produced in Italy and recently commercialized in a European country. Weekly time series, referring separately to quantities of regular and promotional sales, are available. Their joint inspection highlighted the presence of compensato...

Researchers and practitioners have pointed out that ignorance of knowledge transfer from consultancy to client is the reason for high ERP implementation failure rate. Although IT implementation and Innovation diffusion research have identified and empirically investigated various implementation success factors, few studies have empirically examined influential factors from the knowledge transfe...

The configuration of the supply chain is one of the main challenges faced by organizations operating in young, dynamic industries characterized for the use of new materials and technological innovations. In composites materials, a young developing industry, there is not a neither standard manufacturing process, nor are there standardized materials with defined or proscribed properties for compa...

BACKGROUND Traditional government policies suggest that upstream investment in scientific research is necessary and sufficient to generate technological innovations. The expected downstream beneficial socio-economic impacts are presumed to occur through non-government market mechanisms. However, there is little quantitative evidence for such a direct and formulaic relationship between public in...

Innovation often emerges from spin-offs and imitation. Semiconductor processing, as typified by Very Large Scale Integration, is a very mature, high-technology industry, capable of producing components with sub-micron features and extremely closely monitored and controlled chemical compositions. There are many spin-off technologies, some of which have already been adopted in the coatings and me...

This paper introduces the concept of online ‘Innovations-Labs’ (iLabs) as location-independent collaborative ideation spaces. We highlight the challenges and opportunities that disruptive innovations present to companies and society, and discuss how Science Fiction Prototyping and Diegetic Innovation Templating can provide a means to explore that space by acting as ideation process and a langua...