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Only a few years ago it was reasonable to maintain that the theory of spatial innovation diffusion was situated in a “spacious cul-de-sac” (Blaikie 1978). On the one hand, the very limited and dispersed empirical research carried out was not an adequate basis for generalisations of any real substance, or far the proposal of new conjectures or credible research assumptions. On the other hand, the only line of theoretical or empirical analysis of a purely spatial origin to focus on the channels of communication and the diffusion of information (Hägerstrand 1967) appeared to apply uncritically to the social sciences and was derived from models in other sciences such as epidemiology.
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Camagni, R. (2017). Spatial Diffusion of Pervasive Process Innovation. In: Capello, R. (eds) Seminal Studies in Regional and Urban Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57807-1_3
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