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Most existing empirical work on technology diffusion assumes technologies to remain constant throughout the diffusion process. However, many consumer technologies improve significantly over time. Using data on the characteristics of new mobile handsets over a ten-year period and controlling for...
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We study firm-level adoption of packaged software products of almost 4,000 UK sites between 2000 and 2003. We consider all software used in a firm as its software product and categorize it into related, but distinct subsystems: the core subsystem (Operating Systems), and Desktop and Enterprise...
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This paper empirically explores how technology policy affects innovation behaviour in the telecommunications sector. Our empirical analysis aims at shedding light on the following highly topical issues: (I) Whether opening up the domestic market to competition spurs innovative activity?, (ii)...
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In the presence of network externalities, demand is strongly affected by major technology diffusion processes. Therefore, not only sales levels, but also the installed user base of network technologies may influence R&D intensity via the price mechanism. This causality may, however, not be...
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This paper addresses the question of the software companies’ timing of adoption of the open source software (OSS) business models comprising the supply of OSS products and/or services. The game-theoretic technology adoption models do not explain well the observed diffusion patterns of the OSS...
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