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单词 diffusion of innovations
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diffusion of innovations
d. Sociology, Business, and Economics. The spread of new concepts and products within an economy or society; the process whereby innovations are accepted by the market. Earliest and often in diffusion of innovations (cf. innovation n. 5). [The phrase diffusion of innovations was popularized by the American sociologist Everett Rogers (1931–2004) in his work of that name: see quot. 1962. It was originally modelled on French diffusion des innovations (1890 in G. Tarde Lois de l'innovation v. 158, the source reviewed in quot. 1890, or earlier).]
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1890 T. Whittaker in Mind July 409 [Tocqueville is] favourable on the whole to the ‘democratic’ state of society in which social uniformity is brought about by the gradual diffusion of innovations.
1927 B. J. Stern Social Factors in Med. Progress 7 The psychological and sociological factors which retard the diffusion of innovations.
1960 Bull. Atomic Scientists May 153/1 The rate of diffusion is a function of..economic environment. Under a private enterprise system, profitability conditions the diffusion rate of innovation.
1962 E. M. Rogers (title) Diffusion of Innovations.
1977 New Scientist 24 Nov. 480/1 The Soviet pattern of diffusion of new products and processes is substantially different from that in the industrialised capitalist countries.
1990 Papers Brit. School Rome 58 149 In a stable society, the rate of innovation and diffusion will be low, so that the same ‘luxuries’ may mark the dominant class over a long period of time.
2015 A. Palmer Smart Money i. ii. 45 The diffusion of innovations follows a pattern known as the ‘S-curve’, in which an initial period of early adoption gives way to a period of..rapid growth, which..eventually leads to saturation.
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