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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Innovation adoption"”.
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Innovation adoption in naval ship design.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Ocean Engineering.
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Innovation Adoption: Home Rule Use in Illinois
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Innovation adoption and farm management practices in the Canterbury dairy industry
This research examined technology adoption behaviours of Canterbury (New Zealand) dairy farmers and the socio-demographic, farm and information seeking characteristics (ISCs) associated with adoption. Ten farm management practices (FMPs) were selected based on their adoption and promotion by the …
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Innovation Adoption: Adopting change management techniques to positively impact new product diffusion
Several decades of innovation diffusion research has utilized varying lenses – from forecasting innovation diffusion to controllable variables such as cost, quality, and marketing. Yet with so much research into the affecting factors, innovation adoption continues to fail at an alarmingly high …
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Testing an Actor Network Theory Model of Innovation Adoption with econometric methods
In this Thesis I will examine technology adoption by analyzing how different organizations come to interpret a technology as a specific kind of innovation based on a certain set of criteria. The kind of innovation an organization interprets a technology to be effects how quickly the organization …
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Investigating the Learning to Teach Process: Pedagogy, Innovation Adoption, Expertise Development, and Technology Integration
… to teach engineering from the perspectives of innovation adoption and expertise development, the second study revealed the learning to teach engineering process by constructing a framework depicting the stages and dimensions involved in the elementary engineering education (EEE) adoption …
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Factors Affecting Educational Innovation Adoption: The Title Ix Mandate in High School Physical Education and Athletics
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Translating innovation
This doctoral thesis studies the process of innovation adoption in public administrations, addressing the research question of how an innovation is translated to a local context. The study empirically explores Design Thinking as a new problem-solving approach introduced by a federal government …
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Implementation of Robotic Process Automation in U. S. Federal Government
… More scholarly work is needed to understand RPA adoption in the U. S. federal government which then may be used to examine other types of emerging technology implementation at the national level. Three areas of literature set the foundation for this exploratory research - innovation adoption …
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An exploratory study of the diffusion of instructional computing innovation among social work faculty
… variables hypothesized to be correlated with the innovational adoption process. The findings suggested that the innovational attributes of trialability (r =.459, $p<.001$) and observability (r =.363, $p<.001$) surfaced as moderate predictors of instructional computing innovation adoption levels. …
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An exploration of Scottish community pharmacists' adoption of innovative services and products relating to minor ailment management.
… to gain insight into community pharmacists adoption of medicines and services related to two key innovative policy interventions aimed at enhanced minor ailment management; namely the ongoing legal status reclassification of medicines; and the introduction of the Scottish Minor Ailment …
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The Adoption of Low Impact Development by Local Governments
… institutional, and regulatory barriers to LID adoption. The research questions for this study are: What constitutes LID adoption? Why do localities adopt LID? What are the major factors that influenced the level of LID adoption by local governments? Specifically, this study focused on …
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Towards Developing a Management Framework for Managing Inbound Open Innovation Based High-Tech SMEs in Hong Kong
Innovation capability is a key factor in defining where a company resides in the competitive landscape regardless of its size. Hence, it is vital to put innovation, execution excellence and entrepreneurial spirit at the heart of an organisation so it remains competitive. The aim of this research is …
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The adoption of eco-innovations: a study of SMEs in the Scottish food and drink sector.
… in this sector face with regard to the adoption of eco-innovations. In particular, there has been little research on the challenges faced by the SMEs in the sector and how they are adopting eco-innovations. This study seeks to address this research gap through utilization of the …
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Customer Oriented Ideation and its Impact on Customer Adoption of New Solutions
Customer adoption of new solutions is critical for the development of the modern business environment, and both academics and practitioners have been investigating this notion to uncover the customer adoption patterns to progress business and withstand competition. Despite the variety of marketing …
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Customer Oriented Ideation and its Impact on Customer Adoption of New Solutions
Customer adoption of new solutions is critical for the development of the modern business environment, and both academics and practitioners have been investigating this notion to uncover the customer adoption patterns to progress business and withstand competition. Despite the variety of marketing …
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Nurse Practitioner Adoption of Clinical Innovations
<p>Adoption of clinical innovations by Nurse Practitioners (NP) is a complex phenomenon, rooted in personal values and influenced by challenges within health care environments. When clinical innovations are adopted or rejected by NPs, this decision has meaning for patients, NPs, health care …
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StoneSoup: Technology Innovation, Introduction, and Use to Support Learner -Centered Education
… school transformation introduces technological innovations into educational settings to change the delivery and experience of public education. Thus, the introduction and use of StoneSoup was intended to illuminate the potential of, as well as the barriers to, the adoption of such a …
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Examining the Impact of Youth Financial Capability on Financial Innovations in Uganda
Financial innovations are transforming financial well-being and inclusion in Uganda, but their effectiveness hinges on young people's financial capability which comprises of financial behaviours, knowledge and attitudes. This thesis examined the impact of Ugandan youth's financial capability on …
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Big data fusion to estimate driving adoption behavior and urban fuel consumption
… on fuel savings. Moreover, an agent-based innovation adoption model is used with a network of women from Call Detail Records to simulate the time at which women may adopt driving after the ban on females driving is lifted in Saudi Arabia. The resulting adoption rates are combined with fuel …
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