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The diffusion and adoption of advanced technologies in Canada

14 Feb 2006

The sociological and organizational literature focuses on systems of interactions, the role of economic factors, the strategies of firms and development agencies, and the important role of organizations and institutions. [...] This work is exemplified by Rogers (1995), who provides a useful set of five analytic categories that classify the attributes that influence the potential adopters of an innovation: (1) the relative advantage of the innovation; (2) its compatibility, with the potential adopter’s current way of doing things and with social norms; (3) the complexity of the innovation; (4) trialability, that is the e [...] When researchers compared, for example, the historical diffusion pattern for the automatic clothes washer to that of the radio in the United States, they found that the adoption of the latter was approximately 10 times more rapid than the former. [...] The cost of technology includes not only the price of acquisition, but more importantly the cost of the complementary investment and the real costs of learning (time and effort) required to make use of the technology. [...] A report by Baldwin and Sabourin (1998) makes use of the 1989 and 1993 Statistics Canada technology use surveys to study the incidence and competitiveness of Canadian technology users relative to the international community, and in particular the United States.
innovation education economics economy productivity growth science and technology psychology research canada adoption business competitiveness diffusion of innovations economists employment globalization labour labour economics sociology technological innovations economic sector technological diffusion competition (companies) innovative
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