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Industrial innovation diffusion: the extent of use and disuse of process technologies in engineering
Author(s) -
Alderman Neil
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.1998.tb00054.x
Subject(s) - process (computing) , economic geography , emerging technologies , production (economics) , core (optical fiber) , industrial organization , business , diffusion , regional science , engineering , computer science , economics , geography , telecommunications , thermodynamics , physics , artificial intelligence , macroeconomics , operating system
Summary This paper addresses two important issues in the study of industrial innovation diffusion: the extent of use of an innovation throughout the production process, and the disuse of innovations. Evidence for the spatial patterns of use and disuse from a longitudinal survey of British engineering establishments is presented. The extent of use of technology is not found to be spatially differentiated, but reinvestment in newer technologies may be more prevalent in the core regions of the country. Rejection of technology owing to unsuitability or problems in the adoption process is found to reflect establishment‐level rather than locational characteristics.