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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
An earlier version of this chapter appeared in Technological Development and Economic Growth, ed. by George Wilson, (Bureau of Economic and Business Research, Indiana University, 1971). We are indebted to the editor for allowing us to reprint this material.
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For surveys of findings regarding the diffusion process, see Edwin Mansfield, The Economics of Technological Change (New York: W. W. Norton, 1968), Chapter 4
E. Rogers, The Diffusion of Innovations (New York: Free Press, 1962).
Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute, Technological Change: Its Impact on Metropolitan Chicago (1964), p. 1.
For further descriptions of numerical control, see F. Wilson, Numerical Control in Manufacturing (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963);
J. Warner, Introduction of Numerical Control Technology to Illinois Industry, Northern Illinois University (September 1967).
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Mansfield, E., Rapoport, J., Schnee, J., Wagner, S., Hamburger, M. (1971). The Diffusion of a Major Manufacturing Innovation. In: Research and Innovation in the Modern Corporation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01639-6_9
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