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The diffusion of scientific innovations: A role typology

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2019
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Herfeld, C., & Doehne, M. (2019). The diffusion of scientific innovations: A role typology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 77, 64–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.12.001

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How do scientific innovations spread within and across scientific communities? In this paper, we propose a general account of the diffusion of scientific innovations. This account acknowledges that novel ideas must be elaborated on and conceptually translated before they can be adopted and applied to field-specific problems. We motivate our account by examining an exemplary case of knowledge diffusion, namely, the early spread of theories of rational decision-making. These theories were grounded in a set of novel mathematical tools an

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  • Herfeld, Catherine
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  • Doehne, Malte
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77

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64

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80

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General Medicine

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English

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2019-10-01

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2018-05-15

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0039-3681

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Herfeld, C., & Doehne, M. (2019). The diffusion of scientific innovations: A role typology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 77, 64–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.12.001

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