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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Technology diffusion."”.
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Modeling technology diffusion within Vietnam : a network approach.
This paper attempts to model three types of technology transfer within Vietnam. It is assumed that knowledge enters the country through firms that export to other countries. It can then spread by one of three mechanisms: geographic diffusion, industry-specific diffusion, or a combination of the …
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Physician behavior and technology diffusion in health care
… 2 (co-authored with Leila Agha) explores the diffusion of new cancer drugs by testing the influence of physician investigators who lead clinical trials. The basic idea is to exploit variation across drugs in the location of clinical trials to test whether geographic proximity to a principal …
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Operational Dynamics of Technology Diffusion: Evidence From Patenting Data
"One of the most challenging issues in the recent literature on technological development has been related to the ""geography of innovation"" or ""spatial clustering of innovations"". The relationship between innovation and geography is a topic of growing interest in both economics and regional …
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Understanding Technology Diffusion and Spatial Accessibility in the Home Healthcare Industry
… main issues in the US home healthcare system: diffusion and long-term impacts of home telehealth and potential spatial accessibility of home healthcare services. Home telehealth is a promising technology that can increase efficiency and health outcomes. However, the diffusion of this technology …
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Technology diffusion and productivity : evidence from the South African manufacturing sector
… literature on trade-related international technology diffusion. It examines whether South Africa can enhance its productivity by importing machinery and equipment that embodies foreign knowledge from trading partners that do significant amounts of research and development. The focus is on …
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Competitive determinants of technology diffusion in the wood household furniture industry
… furniture industry for its current level of technology adoption, examined the impact of competitive variables on technology adoption and strategy formation, as well as, characteristics of innovators or early adopters within the industry. The results provide both insight into the technological …
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From Lancashire to Bombay: Commercial Networks, Technology Diffusion, and Business Strategy in the Bombay Textile Industry
This thesis is an analysis of technology diffusion and the long-run institutional impact of the nature of that diffusion. It examines how a growing commercial trading relationship with Lancashire-based millwrights enabled textile industrialisation in late 19th century Bombay, and reflects upon the …
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Understanding technology diffusion and market adoption through modeling : implications on strategy for demand-side energy firms
… cutting across interdisciplinary fields of technology, economics, public policy, environment and sociology. Decision makers that shape tomorrow's policy and investors that invest in financial and technological developments in this industry need to rely on multiple decision models to make …
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A Historical Comparative Analysis of Influential Factors on Wind Sector Development in Alberta and Ontario
The diffusion rate of wind technologies differs between jurisdictions. This study is a comparative historical analysis of how various political and socio-economic variables have influenced and interacted with one another to affect wind technology diffusion in Alberta and Ontario from 1993-2016. …
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Open Intellectual Property Strategies for Emerging Technologies - An Exploratory, Mixed-Method Investigation of Patent Pledges
… automotive over information and communication technology to biotechnology. This research investigates patent pledges through an exploratory stance and by utilising a mixed-methods approach. The existing literature is inconsistent and lacks academic rigour. Most patent pledge studies are …
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The role of immigrant scientists and entrepreneurs in international technology transfer
… scientists and entrepreneurs for international technology diffusion. Chapter 1 studies the transfer of tacit knowledge regarding new innovations through ethnic scientific communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an …
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Expanding the Usage of Renewable Energy Through Innovation and Technology Transfer
… dissertation empirically examines innovation and technology transfer of renewable energy technology at the international level with its three essays. The first essay explores how oil endowments of a country influence its innovation paths, specifically in the automobile sector. I show that a …
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Essays in the theory of economic growth
… that are equally useful with any vintage of technology, and specific skills, that are associated with a particular vintage. In Chapter 2, I construct a model of slow technology diffusion. In developing countries, diffusion takes the form of a "dual economy", in which a gradually increasing …
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Benchmarking climate change strategies under constrained resource usage
… growth raises local policy issues in managing technology diffusion and dysfunctional resource expansive specialisations exacerbated by the creation of global carbon markets.
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Optimal Automated Vehicle Piloting: Avoiding Perfection being the Enemy of the Good
… the goal of perfected safety. Although AV technology is not accident-free, it shows potential in reducing crash rates. This work introduces a mathematical framework designed to maximize social welfare through AV pilots, integrating elements such as safety metrics, technology diffusion, and …
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Managing disruptive technology : a comparison of academic research and industry practice.
… focuses on the impact of a recent disruptive technology called the digital video recorder by analyzing the relationship between technology, diffusion, communication and management. Two theories provide a basis for the analysis in this study, diffusion of innovation theory and creative and …
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Essays on macroeconomics and international trade
… a framework for estimating technological diffusion across countries. The framework is applied to study the diffusion of major technologies across the world since the Industrial Revolution. It is shown that differences in technology diffusion in the last two hundred years can account for …
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Location based technology and services : a business plan and in-depth industry analysis
… of the mobile positioning and location-based technology industries, addressing topics such as the S-curve, value chain, network externalities, entry strategies, and technology diffusion. Building off of this analysis, a business plan for a location-based application is presented.
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Understanding Factors Facilitating the Diffusion of Financial Technology (FinTech) A Case Study of the Gulf Cooperation Council
This study focuses on the factors influencing the diffusion of FinTech in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, analysing both financial institutions and technology companies. The research acknowledges the challenges associated with the spread of FinTech and aims to address these issues. The …
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