The Diffusion of Innovations in Early Modern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7730680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C M Cipolla (0000-0003-4168-1474, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-52 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500006496 |
| OpenAlex | W2029054153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 4 |
In recent years the study of the ‘Diffusion of Innovations’ has become a very fashionable subject. Everett M. Rogers stressed the fact that his book on the ‘Diffusion of Innovations’ was based on 506 diffusion studies published in the last decades. Of course quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed. The first of the major conclusions reached by Rogers after perusing the 506 diffusion studies is that ‘innovativeness of individuals is related to a modern rather than a traditional orientation’. One may doubt whether such an extraordinary conclusion was worth the input of energy and goodwill that allegedly went into its production, but there is no doubt that innovations and their diffusion are a topic of major relevance in the study of social development. Innovations are to history what mutations are to biology. Actually, innovations show a remarkable tendency to cluster in time and space, and this incidentally suggests that attention should not be devoted exclusively to the eccentric individual genius of the innovators, but should also be extended to the anonymous forces of the environment
Art history · Diffusion · Economics · Epistemology · Genius · Goodwill · Political science · Positive economics · Quality (philosophy) · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Subject (documents) · Accounting · Computer Science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
Guilds, Patents, and the Circulation of Technical Knowledge
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology
Information Technology and Economic Change
The Diffusion of Fired Bricks in Hellenistic Europe
The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
Deconstructing Glass and Building up Shards at the Early Royal Society
The role of immigrants, emigrants and locals in the historical formation of European knowledge agglomerations
International migration and innovation diffusion
Publishing Nations
Introduction
Selling Ideas
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2023 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |