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2. Challenges to Technology Transfer: A Literature Review of the Constraints on Environmental Technology Dissemination
- Author:
- Daniel K. N. Johnson and Kristina M. Lybecker
- Publication Date:
- 07-2009
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Department of Economics and Business, Colorado College
- Abstract:
- This paper considers the challenges to the dissemination of environmental innovation. Following a brief exploration of the legal and regulatory regimes surrounding environmental technologies, the paper examines diffusion mechanisms, market factors, social characteristics and political elements that facilitate and complicate dissemination. Given the importance of innovation to economic development and growth, the diffusion of innovation is of great interest to economists and policymakers alike.
- Topic:
- Development, Environment, Markets, and Science and Technology
3. Determinants of Recent Online Purchasing and the Percentage of Income Spent Online
- Author:
- Kristina M. Lybecker and Brendan Hannah
- Publication Date:
- 05-2009
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Department of Economics and Business, Colorado College
- Abstract:
- The recent stagnation of electronic commerce highlights the need to understand contemporary online consumer behavior. This study incorporates current user demographics and emerging Internet activities to dynamically model the determinants of two key measurements of recent online shopping, a purchase within the last year and the novel dependent variable, percentage of income spent online in the last three months. Logistic regression is applied to a nationally representative 2007 survey of the U.S. online population. Determinants of a recent online purchase include, ownership of a credit card, an online payment account (PayPalTM), listening to podcasts, participating in online auctions, and for the first time, female gender. In a second regression, positive determinants for the percentage of income spent online include male gender, educational attainment, online auctions, instant messenging and online dating. Online spending increases with time online and appears to compete with other forms of online entertainment and social networking.
- Topic:
- Economics, Gender Issues, Markets, and Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- United States