The role of early adopters in the diffusion of new products: Differences between platform and nonplatform innovations

F Frattini, M Bianchi, A De Massis… - Journal of Product …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… of our very first adopters with the new product, until we realized that our target clients were
not interested in knowing who our first adopters were and what they did with our product.” Of …

Selecting early adopters to foster the diffusion of innovations in industrial markets: Evidence from a multiple case study

M Bianchi, A Di Benedetto, S Franzò… - European Journal of …, 2017 - emerald.com
… With reference to diffusion of innovation, early adopters are … and diffusing an innovation, firms
can act on the early adopters, … early adopters, until they identify a category of early adopters

The acceptance and diffusion of new consumer durables: differences between first and last adopters

E Martinez, Y Polo, C Flavian - Journal of Consumer Marketing, 1998 - emerald.com
… significant differences between early adopters and early majority in … early adopters and late
majority, while when comparing … differences accounting for early adoption of new products? …

Early adopters boosting the diffusion of sustainable small-scale energy solutions

NA Nygrén, P Kontio, J Lyytimäki, V Varho… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
… The diffusion of new energy technologies takes place in stages ranging from innovation to
adoption and stabilization and in this article we will focus on the first adopters of innovations, …

When early adopters don't adopt

C Catalini, C Tucker - Science, 2017 - science.org
… Yet the factors that most influence how and why NEAs engage with new … natural early
adopters are not able to adopt early?” This paper is the first to measure the counterfactual diffusion

Opportunities for crossing the chasm between early adopters and the early majority through new uses of innovative products

MH Lin, CF Hong - The Review of Socionetwork Strategies, 2011 - Springer
… majority is an important issue for innovation diffusion. This research addresses the uses of
innovative products used by early adopters to solve the problem of crossing the chasm. First, …

Why early adopters engage in interpersonal diffusion of technological innovations: An empirical study on electric bicycles and electric scooters

S Seebauer - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2015 - Elsevier
… why early adopters engage in interpersonal diffusion, relying on a longitudinal sample of
Austrian early adopters … Complementary to the early adopters’ self-reports, a small sample of …

Improving diffusion in agriculture: an agent-based model to find the predictors for efficient early adopters

A Barbuto, A Lopolito, FG Santeramo - Agricultural and food economics, 2019 - Springer
adoption rate of a new product is influenced by the network characteristics of the early adopters,
… network features of the early adopters associated with high adoption rates of a specific …

Innovators and early adopters in the diffusion of innovations: A literature review

R Ortt, O Dedehayir, F Miralles… - ISPIM Conference …, 2017 - search.proquest.com
… We repeated this exercise by using the keyword early adopter* in conjunction with the
keyword diffusion to identify a second set of scientific papers (N = 211). In the following step we …

Idea selection using innovators and early adopters

M Sääksjärvi, K Hellén - European journal of innovation management, 2019 - emerald.com
… groups brought forward in the literature on the diffusionearly adopters have long been
recognized as adopter groups that are ahead of the curve by being able to sense which product