{"title":"Multiple Models of Creativity","authors":"R. Greene","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4614-3858-8_382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3858-8_382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":421837,"journal":{"name":"Diffusion of Innovation eJournal","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121618144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling the Determinants Affecting Consumers’ Acceptance and Use of Information and Communications Technology","authors":"Saleh Alwahaishi, V. Snás̃el","doi":"10.4018/JEA.2013040103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/JEA.2013040103","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding individual acceptance and use of Information and Communication Technology ICT is one of the most mature streams of information systems research. In Information Technology and Information System research, numerous theories are used to understand users' adoption of new technologies. Various models were developed including the Innovation Diffusion Theory, Theory of Reasoned Action, Theory of Planned Behavior, Technology Acceptance Model, and recently, the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. Each of these models has sought to identify the factors which influence consumers' intention or actual use of information technology. This research composes a new hybrid theoretical framework to identify the factors affecting the acceptance and use of Mobile Internet -as an ICT application-in a consumer context. The proposed model incorporates eight constructs: Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Facilitating Conditions, Social Influences, Perceived Value, Perceived Playfulness, Attention Focus, and Behavioral intention. Individual differences-namely, age, gender, education, income, and experience are moderating the effects of these constructs on behavioral intention and technology use.","PeriodicalId":421837,"journal":{"name":"Diffusion of Innovation eJournal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134130783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling Electrical Car Diffusion Based on Agents","authors":"Lei Yu, Zhang Tao, Peer-Olaf Siebers, U. Aickelin","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2823267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2823267","url":null,"abstract":"Replacing traditional fossil fuel vehicles with innovative zero-emission vehicles for the transport in cities is one of the major tactics to achieve the UK government 2020 target of cutting emission. We are developing an agent-based simulation model to study the possible impact of different governmental interventions on the diffusion of such vehicles. Options that could be studied with our what-if analysis to include things like car parking charges, price of electrical car, energy awareness and word of mouth. In this paper we present a first case study related to the introduction of a new car park charging scheme at the University of Nottingham. We have developed an agent based model to simulate the impact of different car parking rates and other incentives on the uptake of electrical cars. The goal of this case study is to demonstrate the usefulness of agent-based modelling and simulation for such investigations.","PeriodicalId":421837,"journal":{"name":"Diffusion of Innovation eJournal","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115631726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study of Users and Non-Users of Internet Banking in Malaysia","authors":"J. Munusamy, Sanmugam Annamalah, S. Chelliah","doi":"10.7763/IJIMT.2012.V3.274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7763/IJIMT.2012.V3.274","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to identify the perceptual differences between Internet Banking Adopters and Non-adopters especially in the Malaysian Retail Banking Sector. It investigates whether the perception varies between adopters and non-adopters on the adoption factors such as easier to operate, convenient to use, hassle free, reliable, safer to use and requirement for good Internet connections. This study employs a quantitative approach using a questionnaire survey at selected banks in Malaysia. The results indicate that there are significant differences in perception between internet banking adopters and non-adopters in terms of easier to operate, convenient, no hassle, reliable, safer to use and requirement for good Internet connections. Therefore, the result suggests managerial implications for retail bankers in Malaysia to minimize the risk perception of the internet banking among the non-adopters of the internet banking.","PeriodicalId":421837,"journal":{"name":"Diffusion of Innovation eJournal","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132346598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fall and Rise of the Local Brew: Process Innovation, Horizontal Product Innovation and the Geographic Dispersion of Breweries in England, 1900-2004","authors":"G. Swann","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2128602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2128602","url":null,"abstract":"In the presence of strong economies of scale, a fall in transport costs can lead to a more pronounced geographical concentration of production. This is very apparent in the growing concentration of breweries in England from 1900-1970. The number of breweries in England fell sharply between 1900 and 1970, and so also did the range of locations in which they were located. In 1900, many small villages could boast a brewery of their own, but by 1970, the vast majority of breweries were located in towns and cities. However, as the number of discerning consumers has grown, with a pronounced taste for horizontal product variety, the tendency towards geographical concentration has declined in the last forty years. The consumer group CAMRA, arguably the most successful consumer group ever formed, has been instrumental in educating English beer drinkers to appreciate horizontal product differentiation in beers and ales. Since the foundation of CAMRA in 1971, we have seen many new micro-breweries enter the industry, and a rapidly increasing geographical dispersion of these micro-breweries.","PeriodicalId":421837,"journal":{"name":"Diffusion of Innovation eJournal","volume":"29 23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115162715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Internationalization as a Determinant of Innovation Performance: An Analysis of 42 Countries","authors":"A. Filippetti, M. Frenz, G. Ietto-Gillies","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2114289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2114289","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the impact of internationalization on the innovation performance of 42 countries. Innovation performance – the dependent variable – is measured by the number of triad patents and PCT applications that originate from a country. The following internationalization variables – independent variables – are used: inward and outward stock of FDI, exports and imports as well as the number of parent companies in a country. Information on patents and the internationalization variables, together with further explanatory variables, including the number of scientific articles and of Internet users in a country, are collected for the years 1990 to 2008. The analysis is done for all countries together and then for two groups of countries clustered on the basis of their GDP per capita. The paper finds support for a positive impact of internationalization on countries’ innovation performance. Our analyses suggest that competing in international markets via outward FDI and exports increases the scope of learning and the need to innovate. We find evidence of a negative relationship between patenting and inward FDI as well as imports.","PeriodicalId":421837,"journal":{"name":"Diffusion of Innovation eJournal","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133338766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impacts of Commercialization-Oriented Science and Technology Programs on University Research: The Case of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative","authors":"H. Jung, J. Lee","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2116520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2116520","url":null,"abstract":"We examine how the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), a recent U.S. government’s science and technology (S&T) program launched in 2000, impacts the nature of university research in nanotechnology. We characterize the NNI as a policy intervention that targets the commercialization of technology and a focused research direction to promote national economic growth. As such, we expect that the NNI has brought about unintended consequences in the direction of university-industry knowledge flows and the characteristics of university research output in nanotechnology. Using the difference-in-differences analysis of the U.S. nanotechnology patents filed between 1996 and 2007, we find that, for the U.S. universities, the NNI has increased knowledge inflows from the industry, diminished the branching-out to novel technologies, reduced the research scope, and decreased the likelihood of technological breakthroughs, as compared to other U.S. and non-U.S. research institutions. Our findings suggest that, at least in the case of the NNI, targeted S&T programs of the government may increase the efficiency of university research, but potentially do so at a price.","PeriodicalId":421837,"journal":{"name":"Diffusion of Innovation eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125809206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter B. Doeringer, P. Foster, S. Manning, David G. Terkla
{"title":"Project-Based Industries and Craft-Like Production: Structure, Location, and Performance","authors":"Peter B. Doeringer, P. Foster, S. Manning, David G. Terkla","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2154285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2154285","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines structural properties, location dynamics, and economic performance of project-based industries and craft-like production from a historical perspective, based on the empirical cases of film production in Massachusetts and fashion design and production in New York City. Our comprehensive analysis has important implications for regional economic development, labor market policies and firm strategies.","PeriodicalId":421837,"journal":{"name":"Diffusion of Innovation eJournal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125867167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IT-Based Knowledge Capability and Commercialization of Innovations: Modeling the Impacts of Ambidexterity and Absorptive Capacity","authors":"Avimanyu Datta","doi":"10.4018/jkm.2012070105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jkm.2012070105","url":null,"abstract":"The author provides a framework comprising of propositions for further research explicating the relations between IT-based knowledge capabilities IT-KC and Commercialization of Innovations CI. They posit that a firm's absorptive capacity and ambidexterity ability to explore and exploit affect CI. Further, absorptive capacity too can be an antecedent to ambidexterity. IT based knowledge capability which is an instantiation of IT capability is found to positively moderate the relationship between ambidexterity and commercialization of innovations, and also is an antecedent to potential and realized absorptive capacity. The author ties the seemingly isolated bits of literature together into an integrative theoretical model for testing.","PeriodicalId":421837,"journal":{"name":"Diffusion of Innovation eJournal","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124909268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations","authors":"Dany Bahar, R. Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2087607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2087607","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we document that the probability that a product is added to a country’s export basket is, on average, 65% larger if a neighboring country is a successful exporter of that same product. We interpret our result as evidence of international intra-industry knowledge diffusion. Our results are consistent with the overall consensus in the literature on technology spillovers: diffusion is stronger at shorter distances; is weaker for more knowledge-intensive products; and has become faster over time.","PeriodicalId":421837,"journal":{"name":"Diffusion of Innovation eJournal","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128815663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}