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The Reaper and the Scanner: Adoption of New Technologies and the Nature of Incremental Innovations

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Widespread adoption of a new capital-embodied technology often requires a continuous flow of incremental innovations, aimed at making renting the new machine a viable alternative to buying it, or at dividing it up in modular elements, and possibly allowing for product range extension. Incremental innovations of this kind are quite different from those considered by diffusion models based upon threshold models of adoption, as illustrated both by a re-visitation of Paul David's classic paper on the diffusion of the mechanical repaer, and my own study on electronic prepress devices.

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  • Francesco Lissoni, 2000. "The Reaper and the Scanner: Adoption of New Technologies and the Nature of Incremental Innovations," KITeS Working Papers 116, KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology Studies, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy, revised Sep 2000.
    • Handle: RePEc:cri:cespri:wp116
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    Keywords

    Innovation adoption; Diffusion; Technological interralatedness; Incremental innovations;
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    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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