Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/616 
Year of Publication: 
1992
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1992
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 535
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper tests the hypothesis that industrial process innovations diffuse more slowly in developing countries than in industrialized countries. The focus of the analysis is on four innovations in the textile and steel industries, selected according to data availability. The analysis uses a variable coefficient regression model, based on an S-shaped diffusion curve. It is found that, overall, the level of economic development had only a modest impact on the adoption of innovations. At a more disaggregated level of analysis, its (limited) impact was related to both the characteristics of the technology, and to the firm structure of the respective industry.
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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Digitized Version

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