Can Free Information Really Accelerate Technology Diffusion?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-24

  Morgenstern, Richard D ^a   Al Jurf, Saadeh ^b  

^a RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0039182139     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1625(98)00059-6     Document Type: Article

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