Technological change is one of the key driving forces behind economic growth. In this process, the diffusion of new … technologies plays a vital role. In particular, the early stages of diffusion, in which knowledge is created and transferred for … diffusion process. This thesis addresses the diffusion of nanotechnology and biotechnology in four articles, each highlighting a …

explain well the observed diffusion patterns of the OSS business model among the sample of 716 European software firms …. Instead, it seems that the network effects influentially shape the diffusion path of the OSS supply strategies. Our study … further contributes to the technology diffusion literature as our econometric model aims at separating, unlike the previous …