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The Diffusion of Innovations: an Update

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

George F. Ray
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 126 , November 1988 , pp. 51 - 56
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Copyright © 1988 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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The valuable assistance received from Mme M. Casanova-Mazière of BIPE-Neuilly and from Dr H. Kriegbaum of VDMA-Frankfurt is gratefully acknowledged. A more detailed version of this study will be published in a forthcoming issue of Research Policy.

References

(2) Ray, G.F. (1969), ‘The diffusion of new technology—a study of ten processes in nine industries’, National Institute Economic Review, no.48, May, pp.40-83.

(3) Ray, G.F. (1983), ‘The diffusion of mature technologies’, National Institute Economic Review, no.106, November, pp.56-62.

(4) Nabseth, L. and Ray, G.F. (1974) (eds), The Diffusion of New Industrial Processes—An Intemational Study, Cambridge Uinversity Press; and Ray, G.F. (1984), The Diffusion of Mature Technologies, Cambridge University Press.

(5) Because of the nature of this report, which aims mainly at updating information, many of the technological details and various aspects affecting diffusion covered earlier will not be repeated here: this note should be considered as a continuation, and in some sense completion, of our previous work.

(6) Germany means West Germany throughout.

(7) The Sixth Survey of Machine Tools and Production Equipment in Britain, Metalworking Production, Morgan-Grarnpian, London, 1988.

(8) The countries covered in the first report were the US, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Austria and the UK.