Invention, Innovation, Diffusion

Originally posted in the G+ Community for FutureLearn’s Web Science MOOC on 17 August 2014.

(response to 1.16: Factors that Led to the Construction of the Web; http://goo.gl/kAbQbQ)
Coming to the end of week 1 and strong memories of reading Brian Twiss' classic text book "Managing Technological Innovation" in 1983 at Stirling Uni on my Business Studies/ Management Science course.

Two main ideas in my mind:-
(A) Stages of Invention, Innovation, Diffusion
(B) User adoption categories: Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority, Laggards
Both of these ideas strike me as being highly relevant to the current course.

Resources
1) Technological change; Wikipedia entry: http://goo.gl/Tt7e0p
2) Innovation: Wikipedia entry: http://goo.gl/5R9o
3) Diffusion of innovations; Wikipedia entry: http://goo.gl/v0i8
4) Diffusion (business): Wikipedia entry: http://goo.gl/E1vd9
5) David Gershon, Secrets of Social Diffusion; video outlining the user adoption categories: http://goo.gl/Ooo5hO

6) Seth Godin, How to get your ideas to spread, TED Talk: http://goo.gl/Tr1oEp
7) History of the Internet; Wikipedia entry: http://goo.gl/nBBh