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Assessing the UK policies for broadband adoption [PDF]
Information Systems Frontiers, 2007 Broadband technology has been introduced to the business community and the public as a rapid way of exploiting the Internet. The benefits of its use (fast reliable connections, and always on) have been widely realised and broadband diffusion is one of the items at the top of the agenda for technology related polices of governments worldwide.
Jyoti Choudrie +1 more
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Conceptualization of Policy Adoption in Public Policy Areas
KnE Social Sciences, 2022 This article aimed to review how the policy adoption process occurs based on published case studies, and explain the conceptualization of policy adoption, adding a theoretical overview to the conceptual definition. This study was conducted through a literature review. The researchers found 37 relevant articles to map the development of policy adoption.
Nanik Lestari +3 more
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When will sub-Saharan Africa adopt HIV treatment for all?
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2016 Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) HIV treatment guidelines have been used by various countries to revise their national guidelines. Our study discusses the national policy response to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and quantifies ...
Somya Gupta, Reuben Granich
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Policies to aid the adoption of personalized medicine [PDF]
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2014 Recent policy developments in the European Union and elsewhere aim to tackle some of the key issues responsible for the limited adoption of personalized medicine approaches so far.
Charity, Nofziger +4 more
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Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth [PDF]
, 1994 This paper describes a simple model of technology adoption which combines the two engines of growth emphasized in the recent growth literature: human capital accumulation and technological progress. Our model economy does not create new technologies, it simply adopts those that have been created elsewhere.
Easterly, William +3 more
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2019 Interviews and a survey were conducted with civil society advocates and government officials in U.S. cities and counties that have made a commitment to 100% clean, renewable, community-wide electricity. Survey questions indicated that the characteristics
David J. Hess, Haley Gentry
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PLoS ONE, 2021 IntroductionDespite global recommendations for governments to implement a comprehensive suite of policies to address obesity, policy adoption has been deficient globally.
Brydie Clarke +3 more
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Expanding Downward: Innovation, Diffusion, and State Policy Adoptions of Universal Preschool
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015 Framed within the theoretical framework of policy innovation and diffusion, this study explores both interstate (diffusion) and intrastate predictors of adoption of state universal preschool policies.
F. Chris Curran
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Technology Adoption, Social Learning, and Economic Policy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 We study a two-player dynamic investment model with information externalities and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a unique switching equilibrium. When the public information is sufficiently high and a social planer therefore expects an investment boom, investments should be taxed.
Paul Heidhues, Nicolas Melissas
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Frontiers in Environmental ScienceAs a new generation of urban water management concepts, sponge city (SC) initiative proposed by China plays the pivotal role in mitigating flood risk, combating climate change, and enhancing environmental resilience. The diffusion patterns and mechanisms
Chen Qian, Shupeng Lyu
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