Influence of personal communication networks on innovation adoption - Using multi-agent simulations to project the launch of an innovative medical device

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Barrot, Christian ^a   Kuhlmann, Jan ^b   Popa, Andrea ^b  

^a KÜHNE LOGISTICS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adoption; Agent based modeling; Medical innovation; Seeding; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884761534     PISSN: 02198770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021987701340021X     Document Type: Article

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