Summary information

Study title

Characteristics of Technological Innovations, 1973

Creator

Masterson, J. J., Anglian Regional Management Centre

Hayward, G., Anglian Regional Management Centre

Study number / PID

244 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-244-1 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To examine the time taken for five major innovations (pneumatic conveying, bulk flour outloading, flour silo, short surface milling system and reverse jet filter dust collector) to diffuse throughout the flour milling industry in the United Kingdom. In addition to the time of diffusion, the study also examines characteristics of the innovations as perceived by technical managers who were in a position to influence adoption or non-adoption.
Main Topics:

Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
Whether any of the five innovations had been installed since May 1970. Whether respondent was responsible for decision, which Flour Milling Engineer was responsible for installation. Future installation plans. Rating of agreement/disagreement with 12 statements about the characteristics of the innovations applied separately to each of the five. Attitudes of adoption and non-adoption to innovations. Ranking of importance of a list of attributes of milling engineers with regard to selecting an engineer for installations.
Background Variables
Respondent's position in the firm. Capacity of flour mill (sacks per hour). Date of adoption.

Science and technologyBusiness/industrial management and organisation

CEREAL PRODUCTS (ELSST)FOOD INDUSTRYSCIENTIFIC INNOVATION (ELSST)INNOVATION (ELSST)TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION (ELSST)FOOD TECHNOLOGY (ELSST)

Data collection period

01/05/1973 - 01/08/1973

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Institutions/organisations

National

Managers

Technological innovations

Universe

The total population of flour mills within the United Kingdom (Group mills and independent mills, port mills and inland mills)

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Postal survey

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1975

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is to be made available to any user without the requirement for registration for download/access under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

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Hayward, G. and Allen, D. (1973) 'Attributes of innovations within the capital equipment area', The Business Graduate
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Masterson, J. and Hayward, G. (1977) Study of the characteristics of innovation in the capital equipment field [Research report], : Social Science Research Council.
Masterson, J., Hayward, G. and Allen, D. (1976) 'Characteristics and diffusion of technological innovation', R & D Management, 15-24
(1977) 'Perceived characteristics and the diffusion of innovation', [presentation], International Symposium on Industrial Innovation, 05 September 1977-09 September 1977, University of Strathclyde.
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