Definition: Diffusion

Category: R & D - Oslo Manual

Innovation diffusion encompasses both the process by which ideas underpinning product and business process innovations spread (innovation knowledge diffusion) and the adoption of such products or business processes by other firms (innovation output diffusion) (Source: Oslo Manual 2018).

Diffusion is the way in which innovations spread, through market or non-market channels, from their very first implementation to different consumers, countries, regions, sectors, markets and firms (Source: Oslo Manual 2005). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/Oslo_manual_2018_en.pdf Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), "The measurement of scientific and technological activities: guidelines for collecting and interpreting innovation data: Oslo manual)", Third Edition, Paris, 2005, par. 37
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Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), "Oslo Manual 2018: Guidelines for Collecting, Reporting and Using Data on Innovation", Fourth Edition, Paris, 2018
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