Long-term diffusion factors of technological development: An evolutionary model and case study

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-57

  Kwaśnicki, Witold ^a,b   Kwaśnicka, Halina ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION FACTOR; MODELLING APPROACH; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

EID: 0030460259     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1625(95)00272-3     Document Type: Article

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