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The aim of this paper is to lay the foundation of an approach of the diffusion-adoption problem of an innovation or a technological standard, based on the building of influence matrices. This means that agents are to be considered as participating in social networks that provide the support and the framework of the adoption-diffusion process.
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Steyer, A., Zimmermann, JB. (1998). On the Frontier: Structural Effects in a Diffusion Model based on Influence Matrixes. In: Cohendet, P., Llerena, P., Stahn, H., Umbhauer, G. (eds) The Economics of Networks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72260-8_10
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