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Foundation (PRA 76-15549) and the RANN Division of the National Science Foundation (I.E. 41202500). James L. Perry and Kenneth L. Kraemer, Diffusion and Adoption of Computer Applications Software in Governments, Final Report submitted to the Division of Policy Research and Analysis, National Science Foundation (Irvine, CA: Public Policy Research Organization, 1978); and Perry and Kraemer, Technological Innovation in American Government: The Case of Computing (New York: Pergamon, forthcoming). Four innovation processes were examined in the research: adoption, adoptability, transfer, and diffusion. Adoption refers to the decision surrounding whether or not a particular computer application will be adopted by local governments. Adoptability refers to probability that an application will be adopted by local governments. Transfer refers to the process of moving a computer application developed in one local government (or federal, state or private agency) to another local government. Diffusion refers to the overall spread of computer applications among local governments. 14. The survey was supported by the National Science Foundation, Research Applied to National Needs Division (I.E. 41202500). 15. Nan Lin and Gerald Zaltman, Dimensions of Innovations, in Processes and Phenomena of Social Change, ed. Gerald Zaltman (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1973), pp. 93-116 at 109. 16. Kenneth L. Kraemer, Local Government, Information Systems, and Technology Transfer, Public Administration Review, Vol. 36, No. 4 (July/August 1977).
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