Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Rat Race Dynamics and Crazy Companies: The Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behavior

   • Jesse H. Ausubel

   Pages 1-17

3. Democratization from a Long-term Perspective

   • George Modelski, Gardner Perry III

   Pages 19-35

4. Innovation and Diffusion in a Single Europe: Institutional Structure and Industrial Prospects for the European Communities

   • William S. Peirce

   Pages 37-51

5. Multiple Perspectives on Technological Diffusion: Insights and Lessons

   • Harold A. Linstone

   Pages 53-92

6. Technogenesis: Origins and Diffusion in a Turbulent Environment

   • Dirk-Jan F. Kamann, Peter Nijkamp

   Pages 93-124

7. New Product Diffusion Models in Marketing: A Review and Directions for Research

   • Vijay Mahajan, Eitan Muller, Frank M. Bass

   Pages 125-177

8. The Research on Innovation Diffusion: An Assessment

   • Giovanni Dosi

   Pages 179-208

9. Adoption and Diffusion of Technology as a Collective Evolutionary Process

   • Gerald Silverberg

   Pages 209-229

10. Diffusion of Innovations Under Conditions of Uncertainty: A Stochastic Approach

    • Sergei Yu. Glaziev, Yuri M. Kaniovski

    Pages 231-246

11. Temporal Diffusion and Population Dynamics: A Systems Model

    • Ove Granstrand

    Pages 247-263

12. Diffusion Through Interfirm Cooperation: A Case Study

    • Gerhard Rosegger

    Pages 265-293

13. Some General Regularities of Techno-Economic Evolution

    • Sergei Yu. Glaziev

    Pages 295-315

14. The Adoption of Applications of Information Technology for Process Development: A Regional Case Study

    • Charlie Karlsson

    Pages 317-340

15. External Learning Opportunities and the Diffusion of Process Innovations to Small Firms: The Case of Programmable Automation

    • Maryellen R. Kelley, Harvey Brooks

    Pages 341-381

16. Material Substitution: The Role of New Technology

    • John E. Tilton

    Pages 383-406

17. Morphological Analysis, Diffusion, and Patterns of Technological Evolution: Ferrous Casting in France and the FRG

    • Dominique Foray, Arnulf Grübler

    Pages 407-431

18. Competition and Complementarity in Diffusion: The Case of Octane

    • Robert U. Ayres, Ike Ezekoye

    Pages 433-450

19. Diffusion: Long-term Patterns and Discontinuities

    • Arnulf Grübler

    Pages 451-482

20. Diffusion of Pervasive Systems: A Case of Transport Infrastructures

    • Nebojša Nakićenović

    Pages 483-510

Wee felt it before in sense; but now wee know it by science. Edward Misselden (1623) The collective effort reported in this volume is the outcome of the diffusion of the idea of diffusion as a fundamental process in society. The considerable number of disciplines represented here indicates the weight of the problem area. The editors are to be congratulated for their initiative in drawing together present thinking at a vivid meeting, now also in print. An old­ timer in the business has not much to add. But maybe some things, bearing in mind that a Preface is a celebration and not a review. As always with ideas it is hard to identify those who first gave shape to the idea of diffusion. In a general sense it is probably an observation as old as human self-reflection that groups of populations exchange ideas and copy habits and implements from each other. Sometimes it has even been recommended, as a Chinese proverb suggested millenia ago, "If you want to become a good farmer, look at your neighbor" .

• Diffusion
• Innovation
• business
• marketing
• meeting
• population
• research
• science and technology
• technologischer Wandel
• transport

• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

  Nebojša Nakićenović, Arnulf Grübler

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