… Second, it proposes a chain of influence from the earlier adopter groups to the later adopter
… the group early adopters, whereas the group early adopters tend to influence the group early …

… Companies A, B, C and D approached the commercialization phase for their new products
with a clear idea about potential early adopters: textile firms for Company A, specialized …

… inverse clusters frequency found only a fortuitous idea, which came from one early adopter.
… When a company decides to involve in innovation/knowledge creation, how to select right …

… The idea of platform innovation has its roots in the concept of … to select the Swiss University
of Neuchatel as early adopter. … be effectively targeted as early adopters because they could …

… early adopters, while taking their assortative mixing into account, with the aim to provide
heuristics for seed selection … a stable set—the underlying idea is that experts are much more …

… with an integrated keyboard and initially rejected the idea of touchscreens, because they
were … Only a systematic approach to select innovations and assess their disruptiveness avoids …

… In this chapter we advance the idea that the characteristics of the innovation, and … were
personally interviewed and that they were free to select an innovation for further investigation. …

… and early adopters of an innovation. Rogers (2003, p.12) defines an innovation as “an idea,
… can vary from context to context, we observe that some scholars induce a selection-bias in …

… Lead users and early adopters are often blogging or reading and commenting on blogs. …
Members self-select, and then the community gels around a theme or idea, product, industry…

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