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Inventions, innovations and the origins of spelt wheat
What turns an invention into an innovation? How, if at all, might we observe this process archaeologically? Loosely put, new varieties of plants or...
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Building trust with digital democratic innovations
Digital Democratic Innovations (DDIs) have largely been conceived of, by the academic community, as a possible solution to the crisis of...
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The Role of Mobile Money Innovations in the Effect of Inequality on Poverty and Severity of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and severity of poverty in 42...
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Innovation Management and the Purposive Design of Diffusion Processes
The chapter gives insight into the efforts that are undertaken by innovation management to ensure that diffusion processes can be systematically...
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Multimedia Stories: A Melting Pot of Innovations
This thesis explores multimedia storytelling as a melting pot of innovations and as an indicator for technological and structural change and...
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Including Relational Goods Within the Diffusion of Innovation Framework
Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation Theory (DOI) is a parsimonious theory to explore how a technology is adopted by a social group (including...
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Crossing the boundaries: reimagining innovation and diffusion
Boundaries represent separation and the end of one thing and the beginning of another. The diffusion of innovations represents a transmission of...
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Innovation and diffusion of blended synchronous classroom in Chinese primary and junior middle schools
Blended synchronous learning has diffused widely owing to its flexibility and accessibility. One of the special forms—blended synchronous classroom...
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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Dissemination: Adapting Diffusion Theory to Examine PrEP Adoption
PrEP adoption among African-American men-who-have-sex-with-men (AAMSM) remains low. We applied Diffusion-of-Innovations (DOI) theory to understand...
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Adopting, implementing and assimilating coproduced health and social care innovations involving structurally vulnerable populations: findings from a longitudinal, multiple case study design in Canada, Scotland and Sweden
BackgroundInnovations in coproduction are sha** public service reform in diverse contexts around the world. Although many innovations are local,...
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Nonlinear free vibration of piezoelectric semiconductor doubly-curved shells based on nonlinear drift-diffusion model
In this paper, the nonlinear free vibration behaviors of the piezoelectric semiconductor (PS) doubly-curved shell resting on the Pasternak foundation...
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Digital technologies, technological improvement rates, and innovations “Made in Switzerland”
Technologies evolve at different paces and their rate of improvement varies considerably. We demonstrate that the fastest technological progress...
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Promoting educational innovations and change through networks between higher education teachers
Innovation in higher education teaching is essential to respond to global challenges and actively improve teaching (e.g. through new technologies),...
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Inhomogenous Marketing Mix Diffusion
In this article we extend the Marketing Mix Diffusion (MMD) model to inhomogenous networks (i.e. complex networks of arbitrary topology). The...
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Captive Offshoring, Innovation and Market Diffusion: Evidence from the Swedish Community Innovation Survey
Although the effects of captive offshoring on firm innovation have increasingly become a subject of study, the literature did so far not distinguish...
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Ready, set, go! The role of organizational readiness to predict adoption of a family caregiver training program using the Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory
BackgroundCaregivers FIRST is an evidence-based program addressing gaps in caregivers’ skills. In 2020, the Veterans Health Administration Caregiver...
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Diffusion of a micronutrient home fortification program for infants and toddlers in a multi-ethnic population in rural western China
BackgroundThe micronutrient home fortification programs contribute to the prevention of childhood anemia. WHO suggested applying culturally...
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Gauging the Knowledge Development of Innovations in Mega-infrastructure Projects
As the construction industry’s flagships, mega-infrastructure projects are often involved in advanced practices. In these practices, innovative...
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The Role of Medical Clusters in the Development of NBICS Innovations in Industry 4.0
NBICS technologies are the driving force of today’s innovation economy: the convergence of nano-, bio-, information, cognitive, and social...
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Is digitalization a source of innovation? Exploring the role of digital diffusion in SME innovation performance
Drawing on strategic management theory, this study examines the relationship between digitalization and innovation performance in small and...