Facilitating, accelerating, and sustaining the innovation diffusion process: An epidemic modeling approach

European Journal of Innovation Management

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 80-89

  Hivner, Walter ^a   Hopkins, Willie E ^a   Hopkins, Shirley A ^b  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Facilitators; Innovation; Modelling; Organizational policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979599946     PISSN: 14601060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14601060310475237     Document Type: Article

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