The agency was established by representatives of more than 80 countries in October 1956, nearly three years after U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech to the United Nations General Assembly, in which Eisenhower called for the creation of an international organization for monitoring the diffusion of nuclear resources and technology.
The ranking of sectors revealed by authority and hub scores provides useful information for the policy design, especially if the government intervention aims at a high aggregate impact and wide diffusion of the resources among sectors.
The diffusion of human resource innovations: The case of flexible benefits plans (CAHRS Working Paper 94-166).
Large-scale diffusion of distributed energy resources (DERs) will have a profound impact on electricity infrastructure functioning: it will bring radical changes to the traditional model of generation and supply as well as to the business model of the energy industry.
On the other hand, centralized networks can easily generate bottlenecks if any of the key stakeholders (brokers) block diffusion of information and/or resources.
Entrepreneurship is a concept developed to explain the actors of a new wave of firms generating a "creative destruction," as the diffusion of new combinations of resources renders old industries obsolete.
If you create an "innovation funnel," that not only filters out the bad ideas, but also the ideas that weren't quite good enough to justify spreading yourself or your team thin, you eliminate wasting valuable resources, diffusion of focus, and a more complex end product or service than necessary!
Thus a global trend of diffusion occurred, whereby resources and factors of production, such as capital, technology, talents and expertise, previously held mostly in the developed Western world, started to diffuse to the vast periphery.
The reason for these results is that a sufficient intensity of random diffusion can better balance the overmatching of resources or even a net loss of individuals at the boundary.
She is currently working on issues related to globalization and development, such as the political economy of foreign aid, the "digital divide" and the global diffusion of the internet, the resource curse and non-tax revenues, and the relationship between globalization and democracy, in Africa and the Middle East.
