- Adopters:
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The cumulated number of persons who have bought a product over time.
- Diffusion:
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The spread of a new product, process or concept in the market. The process of bringing innovation into wide use.
- Imitator:
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An imitator buy a new product because he observed or communicated with customers who have already bought the product. The buying decision of imitators is influenced by the adoption of other customers.
- Innovation:
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The process of bringing new technology into use.
- Innovator:
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A customer with general interest in innovations making his buying decision independent of others.
- Installed base:
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Installed base is defined as the amount of users in a network system.
- Invention:
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The process of bringing new technology into being.
- Network effects:
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A product is characterized by a network effect, if the utility of that product is a function of the installed base. The utility increases with the installed base.
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Milling, P.M., Maier, F.H. (2017). Diffusion of Innovations, System Dynamics Analysis of the. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_124-2
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