… Innovations” model to explore the concept of new technology adoption by consumers, in light
of recent reports that the Early Adopters … After an extensive review of the historical literature …

… Finally, we find strong empirical evidence in support of the influence of early adopters on …
in early adopters, and make early adopter activity observable. The cost reducing innovations, …

… risks, thus easily becoming late adopters, and vice versa; mass media has an impact for early
adopters, herd behavior and word of mouth for late adopters but no e容ct for early adopters…

… five distinct groups of innovation adopters based upon … “early adopters,” that allowed for
these new technologies to become assimilated into the population at large. The early adopters …

… use of neologisms or other linguistic innovations. Those high in … Who were the early adopters
of the new, derided coinage or … Such lexical innovations may not be comparable to those in …

… types of early adopters who attempted eight types of walling innovations. Most efforts (71%)
were partially successful or failed. The range of TCs identified differed by the adopter type, …

… Upon visual examination, two early adopters can be clearly distinguished, NHS South … South
Central region also became early adopters. A second early adopter, the South West region, …

… socio-demographic profile before investigating historical changes over time, and finally …
study for innovation adoption. This work helps in understanding consumer innovation adoption …

… We also find that a local government's historical paths on urban … Mayors in early adopter
cities may face greater political pressure to respond to constituency demand for urban innovation…

… dealing with an artefact of the fragmentary archaeological (and historical) record, with a failed
innovation or with the inventor or early adopter? Here a smaller scale would be beneficial, …