… With reference to diffusion of innovation, early adopters are … diffusing an innovation, firms
can act on the early adopters, by … early adopters, until they identify a category of early adopters …

… innovators and early adopters can … earlier adopter groups to the later adopter groups. The
group innovators tend to influence the group early adopters, whereas the group early adopters …

… different types of innovation and different types of early adopters bears substantial risk. This
… early adopters of disruptive innovations and early adopters of sustaining innovations. The …

… early adopters (EAs) in the diffusion process changes between platform and nonplatform
innovations, … change between platform and nonplatform innovations. Relying on an exploratory …

… Companies have historically invested in large research and development departments to …
’ that are early adopters of the concept. Our findings demonstrate that many Open Innovation …

… the use of an IT innovation is higher for early adopters of the innovation than for later adopters.
… for the use of an IT innovation are higher for early adopters of the innovation than for later …

… The town has a history dating back about 800 years. During the last 100 years or so, the …
status group who adopted television during the innovation or the early adopter time period.) …

… First case studies of successful historical innovations are explored. Second the consumer
adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is studied in detail by using questionnaire surveys …

… mixing of innovators and early adopters in networks. … early adopters than other widely used
indices. Top Candidate nodes adopt earlier and have higher reach among innovators, early …

… be early adopters of innovations. Early adopter institutions, defined as the first 20% of facilities
to adopt an innovation, are important because they subsequently facilitate the diffusion of …