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Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behavior

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Nebojša Nakićenović

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

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  2. Arnulf Grübler

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

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  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
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About this book

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" .

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Nebojša Nakićenović, Arnulf Grübler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Diffusion of Technologies and Social Behavior

  • Editors: Nebojša Nakićenović, Arnulf Grübler

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02700-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-02702-8Published: 02 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-02700-4Published: 14 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 605

  • Number of Illustrations: 120 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: R & D/Technology Policy, Regional/Spatial Science, Marketing

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