TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hall,Bronwyn H.
AU  - Khan,Beethika
TI  - Adoption of New Technology
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9730
PY  - 2003
Y2  - May 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9730
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9730.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Bronwyn H. Hall
Dept. of Economics
549 Evans Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
Tel: 510/642-3878
Fax: 510/548-5561
E-Mail: bhhall@nber.org

Beethika Khan
National Science Foundation
E-Mail: bkhan@nsf.gov
AB  - The contribution of new technology to economic growth can only be realized when and if the new technology is widely diffused and used. Diffusion itself results from a series of individual decisions to begin using the new technology, decisions which are often the result of a comparison of the uncertain benefits of the new invention with the uncertain costs of adopting it. An understanding of the factors affecting this choice is essential both for economists studying the determinants of growth and for the creators and producers of such technologies. Section II of this article discusses the modeling of diffusion and Sections III to V explore the determinants of diffusion and the evidence for their importance.
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