The Diffusion of a Major Manufacturing Innovation

Edwin Mansfield, John Rapoport, Jerome Schnee, Samuel Wagner and Michael Hamburger
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Edwin Mansfield: University of Pennsylvania
John Rapoport: Mount Holyoke College
Jerome Schnee: Columbia University
Samuel Wagner: Temple University
Michael Hamburger: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Chapter 9 in Research and Innovation in the Modern Corporation, 1971, pp 186-205 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in the diffusion process, the process by which the use of an innovation spreads and grows. Studies have been made to determine the factors influencing the rate of diffusion and the characteristics of the firms that are relatively quick, or relatively slow, to adopt an innovation. These studies have helped to provide a clearer and more complete understanding of the diffusion process, but they are only a beginning. Much more work is required before a satisfactory understanding is achieved.1

Keywords: Machine Tool; Small Firm; Numerical Control; Precision Machine; Mail Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1971
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01639-6_9

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