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Considering Adoption: How are Innova...

Rekers, Josephina Veronica Maria.

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Considering Adoption: How are Innovations Validated in Cultural and Science-based Industries?

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Considering Adoption: How are Innovations Validated in Cultural and Science-based Industries?/
Author:	Rekers, Josephina Veronica Maria.
Description:	183 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-07, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-07A.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR72275
ISBN:	9780494722756

Considering Adoption: How are Innovations Validated in Cultural and Science-based Industries?
Rekers, Josephina Veronica Maria.

Considering Adoption: How are Innovations Validated in Cultural and Science-based Industries? - 183 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-07, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2010.

This thesis examines the process by which innovative new products come to be accepted and adopted in the marketplace. As these products are inherently uncertain and not readily accepted and adopted, market intermediaries play an important role in the validation and subsequent diffusion of innovations. In this thesis I demonstrate that these social processes have significant impact on the spatial organization of the market development process. Drawing on a diverse but complementary set of literatures -- including the economic geography of innovation, communities of practice, social networks, the sociology of scientific knowledge and reception studies -- I sketch out an adoption-centric approach to understanding the social dynamics of the innovation process.

ISBN: 9780494722756Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

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520 $a Using comparative case studies of musical theatre and pharmaceutical vaccines, this research finds that the process of market development involves a range of participants that are each embedded in their own distinctive community. The social and geographic configuration of these intermediaries varies for different knowledge-intensive products: validating expertise for cultural products such as theatre is situated predominantly in 'global nodes of excellence', whereas for science-based goods such as vaccines this is situated in the local marketplace.
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520 $a An adoption-centric perspective such as the one developed in this thesis sheds light on the social and geographic forces that shape the uptake of innovations. Application of this perspective has potential to significantly strengthen policy initiatives in support of the demand-side of regional innovation systems.
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