Technology adoption research aims to determine the reasons why and how individuals, corporations, and industries start using new technology. Furthermore, technology adoption itself is decomposed into underlying sub-processes which are characterized by a finite number of sequential states in order to capture its evolutionary nature. Building upon that, in this paper a technology adoption index is being constructed that allows for statistical testing. This new framework is flexible with respect to the number of underlying models, and accounts for nonlinearities within the evolution of technology adoption. It can be considered as novel because it gives opportunity to a quantitative analysis of technology adoption that has not existed before. Subsequently, this framework is applied for an integrated model of technology adoption.
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技术采用研究旨在确定个人、公司和行业开始使用新技术的原因和方式。此外,技术采用本身被分解为基础子过程,这些过程被特征化为一定数量的连续状态,以捕捉其演化性质。在此基础上,本文构建了一种技术采用指数,可进行统计检验。这种新框架在基础模型数量上非常灵活,并考虑了技术采用演化中的非线性关系。它可以被认为是一种前所未有的量化技术采用分析方法。随后,该框架被应用于技术采用的综合模型。