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Spatial Variation In Diffusion Of Technological Innovations At The State, Regional, And Cross-National Levels, Maxwell Kuohsuan Hsu
Spatial Variation In Diffusion Of Technological Innovations At The State, Regional, And Cross-National Levels, Maxwell Kuohsuan Hsu
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation seeks to investigate and explain the differences in the adoption rates of several technological innovations at three levels of aggregation: (1) U.S. state level, (2) U.S. Bureau of Census regional level, and (3) cross-national level. A unique feature of this dissertation is that it focuses not only on the temporal (time-related) but also on the spatial (space-related) dimensions of the process of diffusion of innovations. The Mansfield-Blackman diffusion model (1974) is used to estimate the adoption rates of three technological innovations over the period 1960-90 across the 50 states of the U.S. The model is also used to …