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This study aims to assess and compare country-specific layman's interest in 17 AI technologies based on Google Trends big data. Government AI Readiness Index 2023 is utilized to evaluate the underlying factors influence on AI technology adoption. As a result, a total of 80 regions showed interest towards AI via Google searches. GDP had a weak correlation to Google trend results. The high-income regions were the most prominent regions (N=40), but the lower-middle-income regions (N=20) overcame the higher-middle-income region (N=16) whereas the low-income group consisted of only two countries. The list of top-ranking regions was somewhat surprising, since many lowerincome regions such as Ethiopia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal outperformed higher-income regions. Eleven out of 39 Government AI Readiness Index 2023 indicators had either weak or moderate correlation with Google Trends data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing adoption of environmentally-friendly technology, such as electric vehicles (EVs), is a topic of global interest. However, in less developed regions like Bolivia, it remains a challenge. The successful adoption of EVs in Bolivia depends on understanding the factors influencing consumer adoption intentions. This research aims to identify these factors by examining the impact of EVs' functional, non-functional and attitudinal factors on consumer adoption intentions in Bolivia. The study found that adoption intentions depend on factors such as gender, perceived utility, ease of use, perception of the environment, social influence, perceived behavioral control, emotional value, monetary value, and attitudes. The findings of this study provide valuable insights for marketing strategies and open the door for further research on the acceptance of EVs in developing countries like Bolivia. Additionally, different business strategies are discussed to ease electric vehicle adoption in Bolivia. The research highlights that understanding the factors that drive electric vehicle adoption in developing countries is essential for successfully implementing electric vehicles in Bolivia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do digital technologies (e.g. AI and big data) versus cybersecurity initiatives diffuse along the supply chain? Based on digitization and cybersecurity words in 10-K filings from 1998 to 2016, we find that suppliers learn from customer firms in adopting digital technologies, and the learning is more effective when the supply chain relationship lasts longer and when the business overlap is greater. In contrast, customer firms pre-select suppliers with comparable cybersecurity commitments. This paper highlights the nature of technology in its diffusion process along the supply chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pace of business is naturally accelerating due to technology and innovation advancements; as such, to maintain relevance and a competitive advantage an organization must understand and use time wisely. Thus, the exploration of product/technology (innovation) diffusion economics, and its relationship to time has great value to decision makers within an organization. Previous research demonstrated via economic impact that when a technology or innovation has a fast diffusion rate, an organization’s decision-makers should endeavor to make quicker decisions when compared to a technology or innovation with a slower diffusion rate. Expanding on this research, the Diffusion Time Value, a standardized economic measure referenced to units of time, is used in this paper to explore the economic importance of understanding a product/technology (innovation) diffusion stages in relation to its abandonment point. This framework provides knowledge for an organization’s decision makers to make better decisions in relation to time, for the understanding and use of time within an organization can be used as a competitive advantage for growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding the economical impact of a technology's diffusion rate can assist decision makers in making informed decisions on how resources (labor, equipment/materials, time, and capital) are managed. The goal of this research is to demonstrate a link between a technology's diffusion rate and its value (economic impact) to warrant further examination of its impact on abandonment. An overview of the technology diffusion curve is presented, and three diffusion rates (categorized as fast, medium, and slow) are modeled to demonstrate the impact on a technology's value along a technology's diffusion curve. Results show a link between diffusion rate and market value for a technology's diffusion curves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to propel the global competitiveness of precision machinery industry (PMI) in the era of modern innovated economy, it is essential to explore the technology diffusion in PMI not only to pursue advantages in global manufacturing industry, but also to seek the sustainability in modern engineering technology. This study adopts Bass's (1969) model to estimate technology diffusion in PMI, which includes three parameters of innovation coefficient (p), imitation coefficient (q) and potential market size (m). By simulating the parameters, this study finds that innovators can promote the innovative activities in industrial clusters because of geographical features; however, imitators can also imitate and improve their competitiveness by lower labors and costs. The most important factor affected by diffusion is distance, where the diffusion rate on the coordinate appears as a distribution of binary function. Finally this study contrasts the findings with Rogers's (1962) diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the process of knowledge flow from Japan to Taiwan in the global TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display) industry. In these cross-border competition and technological knowledge diffusion process, Japanese companies are concerned about the strategies how to maintain the advantages of core technology and avoid outflow of technology from Japan to other Asian countries. As for Taiwanese companies, they are much more concerned about the strategies how to catch-up Japanese counterparts and increase global market share effectively through cross-national social and personal relationship. My main purpose of this paper is to analyze the failure of Japanese "technology-centric" strategy and the rise of Taiwanese "social embeddedness" advantage, and explore the main reason of "the rise of Taiwan and the fall of Japan" in the global TFT-LCD market after the technology diffusion from Japanese consumer electronics giants to Taiwanese TFT-LCD industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the real world, the adoption of information technology (IT) innovations is a complex process involving three main entities: (i) promoters, who facilitate the adoption process, (ii) inhibitors, who oppose the adoption of technology, and (iii) imitators who are influenced by both promoters and inhibitors. In the presence of promoters and inhibitors, managing technology innovation and adoption is a complex task. Since most of the IT innovations are characterized by these actors, understanding the dynamics of their diffusion and adoption is imperative. This research seeks to develop a system dynamics model to capture the interactive dynamics of IT adoption in a complex environment involving promoters, inhibitors, and imitators. Based on a set of experiments, we investigate via simulation, the behavior of a typical diffusion and adoption process, drawing useful managerial implications for technology policy makers. What-if analyses experiments are carried out in order to obtain further insights into policy design and evaluation for effective technology management. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Introduction. The ICT market is a quite dynamic industry sector regarding number of start-ups. Additionally, ICT is often named as important field for innovation in Belgium. From a technology diffusion and adoption perspective, the ICT sector is important as many new applications are driven by or supported by ICT-related developments. However, knowledge and understanding of the innovativeness of these ICT start-ups and their contribution to technology development and diffusion is currently relatively limited. Aim. The aim of this study is to investigate if ICT start-ups contribute to the development and dissemination of new technologies and innovations, as it could be that the newly established ventures primarily aim at exploiting the founders' knowledge and expertise on their own account rather than developing and introducing new technologies and new knowledge. This difference could be revealed using different innovation parameters, measured by an empirical study. In addition, existing typologies of ICT innovations will be used to verify in which domain(s) newly established ICT ventures are active. In this sense, the innovativeness will be matched with needs in both the Belgian industry and the global ICT sector. Survival and performance of the starters will be included as control variables. Methodology. The research will be executed adopting a three-phase mixed-method approach. First, a literature review on the subject and an assessment of the Belgian policy and initiatives towards the enhancement of innovativeness is performed, with specific attention for the ICT sector. A second stage consists of a qualitative research. In this phase, the typology of ICT innovations and the innovativeness measures will be verified and tested within the industry using semi-structured interviews with managers of ICT ventures. Additionally, a round table discussion with industry experts will be used to select appropriate case studies for this phase. The final research phase will gather data on a larger scale using a quantitative survey approach, based upon the findings of the preceding qualitative and literature research. The sample consists of Belgian start-ups in the ICT sector established between 2000 and 2006. These limitations have been chosen because the similar geographical setting in which these ventures operate and because financial data are available for all companies of our sample using the Bel-First financial database. All companies for which no financial data are available will be excluded from our sample. Implications. Comparing the innovativeness of start-ups with the need for innovation in Belgium and a typology of ICT innovations, will assess the current innovation potential of Belgian start-ups. The results of this work-in-progress are useful for a number of stakeholders. First, the ICT industry in general, and the individual ICT organisations in particular, will be provided with an overview of the innovativeness of their industry. This can potentially indicate market opportunities for ICT innovations. Second, government can verify whether their policy and initiatives result in relevant ICT innovations. Third, researchers can expand the research setting to similar countries also focusing on innovation within the ICT industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Each year in the United States, over one million unintended pregnancies end in abortion. Although women's need for abortion care is high, access to such care has become more difficult, in part due to the concentration of care within specialty abortion clinics. The number of private physicians who provide abortion care has declined precipitously as has the number of abortions performed in hospitals. In September 2000, the FDA approved mifepristone (known as RU486 in France and commonly called the "abortion pill") for distribution and use. Proponents of medication abortion availability heralded mifepristone's potential to reverse the decline in abortion access, as it can be used by health providers with minimal special training or equipment. This paper discusses the results of a project using a provider education approach known as academic detailing to facilitate the diffusion of medication abortion among primary care physicians in rural California. This study found relatively low knowledge and provision of mifepristone but identified widespread support for abortion generally and surprising changes in physicians' willingness to provide medication abortion among those that received academic detailing. These providers identified the resources that would make them more likely to provide mifepristone. The majority of those physicians who received academic detailing visits found the information and the visits useful. These results suggest that academic detailing may be one way to increase awareness of and potential use of mifepristone for medication abortion. Implications for the study of abortion provision specifically and medical sociology of technological diffusion more broadly are provided. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the introduction of a new technology into a society there is always a differential rate in which individuals and groups within that society begin to fully utilize the technology. This unequal rate of technological diffusion can occur for numerous social, political, geographic, and economic reasons, which can often occur in combination (DiMaggio, 360; Rogers, 469). In this paper we use diffusion inequality theories to better understand how weather detection technology is being integrated by Oklahoma emergency managers. An analysis of 27 in-depth interviews with emergency managers is used to determine the current ability of EMs to access weather detection radar technology as well as the potential impact that future advancements in radar technology may have on these EMs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of conference papers related to technology and innovation management. "Deploying Intellectual Capital for Architectural Innovative Capabilities," by Mohan Subramaniam; "Exploring Industry Implications of Organizational Learning," by David R. King; "The Fragility of Knowledge Sharing: A Behavioral Approach," by Georg Von Krogh; "When Do Acquisitions Facilitate Technological Exploration and Exploitation?," by Paul Almeida.

This article presents conference paper abstracts concerning management education and development, including a study on the use of film in a technology management class to teach innovation management, a study of changes in student perceptions of technological, course conduct, and course outcome variables as they participated in multiple online courses over a four year period in an MBA program, and a discussion of the perceptions and experiences of students who had recently and successfully completed an academic service-learning project for an undergraduate compensation and benefits course.

This article presents several conference paper abstracts on technology and innovation management, including and examination of whether varieties of capitalism theory properly describes the empirical world of technological innovation, a framework for exploring why industry incumbents lose their leadership positions to attackers in the face of seemingly innocuous technological changes, and empirical research into the nature of business relationships, knowing and learning in the British and Italian motorsport industries.

Decipher is an online clearinghouse for tourism business intelligence and research. It has been developed collaboratively by the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism and various State Tourism Commissions in Australia since 1999. The Decipher system will be ready for public launch at the end of 2003, with the principle target markets being: small and medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs); local tourism associations (LTAs): and regional tourism organisations (RTOs). Decipher itself represents a substantial technological innovation for the Australian tourism industry, and now faces the challenge of adoption by its markets. This paper argues that there are systemic and structural inhibitors to innovation diffusion in Australia's (primarily regional) tourism systems. While Decipher can clearly be shown to represent improvement on current methods for research distribution, technical and functional soundness are not sufficient attributes to ensure widespread uptake. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although research on industry clusters has made many valuable contributions, a dearth of empirical evidence and theoretical reflection on the characteristics of Base of the Pyramid (BOP) clusters has persisted. Consequently, the literature still lacks a framework that incorporates the context, challenges, and dynamics encountered in such clusters. Drawing from cluster, capability accumulation, and innovation literatures, we develop a theoretical framework that provides a more fine-grained understanding of the dynamics encountered in BOP clusters, the role of support organizations, the accumulation of capabilities in firms, and the challenges associated with technology development and diffusion within such settings. We use case-study research conducted in a traditional granite-mining cluster in Brazil, based on 154 interviews with key informants between 1999 and 2011. Our findings suggest that BOP clusters present a different dynamic when compared to clusters elsewhere, because of the existence of idiosyncrasies such as additional barriers to technology diffusion, especially when coupled with a lack of coordination and misaligned policy approaches. We contribute to the literature by arguing that the process of technology diffusion in BOP clusters is hindered by these idiosyncrasies, and that technology development without wide diffusion within a BOP cluster can become a source of social exclusion and wealth concentration. Moreover, in large emerging economies, global pipelines are not necessarily the only path for BOP clusters to achieve competitive advantage and sustainable growth, as suggested in the cluster literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]