1999/21 | LEM Working Paper Series | |
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Social Heterogeneities in Classical New Product Diffusion Models |
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Piero Manfredi, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Angelo Secchi
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Within the very broad scientific debate on the role of heterogeneities in models of
innovation diffusion, there seems to exist a delay of marketing science in absorbing the
fecund developments that took place, in the field of epidemiology of infectious diseases in
very recent times. This paper, which constitutes the basis for a future research project,
aims to fill this gap. This is done along three main directions. First, the paper discusses
in general terms the role of the concept of heterogeneity in innovation diffusion. Second,
it reviews those recent epidemiological results which are of crucial interest for marketing
models. Finally, it offers a sample of results which are suggestive of the critical role
played by heterogeneities within deterministic models for the diffusion of new products.
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