Until recently, empirical analyses of spatial interdependence in the social sciences remained largely confined to specialized areas of applied economics (e.g., environmental, urban/regional, and real-estate economics) and sociology (i.e., network analysis). However, social-scientific interest in and applications of spatial modeling have burgeoned lately, due partly to advances in theory that im...

OBJECTIVE Uncontrolled proliferation of health technologies (HT) is one contributor to the increasing pressure on health systems to adopt new technologies. With limited resources, policy-makers encounter difficulties in fulfilling their responsibility to meet the healthcare needs of the population. The aim of this study is to explore how policy-makers' reason about the diffusion and utilization...

This paper studies the economics and the economic modelling of the adoption and diffusion of wind power technology. In particular, the decision-making problem of potential investors in wind power capacity is discussed. Moreover, we analyze the heterogeneity of adopters and regional diffusion patterns, as well as the impact of dynamic factors, such as technical progress, learning, scale economie...

Broadband communications lie at the heart of the developing information society. Employing a logistic diffusion model, we analyze the factors that influence the diffusion of fixed and mobile broadband. For fixed broadband diffusion, we find that local loop unbundling, income, population density, education, and price are significant factors of fixed broadband diffusion. For mobile broadband, mul...