Thomas Valente - Models for the Diffusion of Innovations (NetGloW 2014)

The keynote talk by Thomas Valente (University of Southern California, USA) entitled “Models for the Diffusion of Innovations” outlined the history and current thinking on diffusion of innovations, with a focus on the social network analysis perspective. Valente presented the results of numerous empirical studies on the subject conducted in the recent decades, and highlighted the importance of theoretical conceptualizations encapsulating both static and dynamic network properties and their influence on the rate and specifics of diffusion of innovation.