Information on role of social capital in the diffusion of water systems innovations was analysed using data collected through key informants interviews, focus group discussions and structured questionnaire.
Agglomeration economies including technology diffusion and capital-good market externality play a more important role in the offshore agglomeration of multinationals than the agglomeration of domestic firms.
With the presence of Muslims in Western capitals and the rapid diffusion of mass-communication media, Islam has become a globalized subject, albeit one largely viewed through the prism of security and intelligence.
This paper analyzes renewable energy technology acculturation using Dobrov's conceptualization of technology as hardware, software, and orgware; Bourdieu's categories of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital; and Rogers' concept of diffusion of innovations.
By now it is widely understood that the diffusion of technology, capital and skills means wealth can be created everywhere on the globe.
Or individual social capital can make more possible diffusion of health information between individuals and spread positive behavioral norms through the communities [ 15, 16].
Brain drain, the diffusion of skilled human capital, particularly scientific and technical human capital (STHC), from home to host country, is of concern to many nations.
However, there is limited information on the nature and extent of social capital, and how it influences the diffusion of water system innovations at community level.
Mobilising the amount of capital needed to bring about large-scale diffusion of offshore wind power will require innovative financial solutions.
The country's national system of innovation (NSI) for IC design was investigated, which suggested that four major elements of NSI government policy, human capital, industry clusters, and bridging institutions explain the extensive diffusion of new technologies within the industry.
In sum, social capital affects individual health by promoting more rapid diffusion of health information, increasing the likelihood that healthy norms of behaviour are adopted, and exerting social control over deviant health-related behaviour [23].
