Technology adoption research aims to determine the reasons why and how individuals, corporations, and industries start using new technology. Furthermore, technology adoption itself is decomposed into underlying sub-processes which are characterized by a finite number of sequential states in order to capture its evolutionary nature. Building upon that, in this paper a technology adoption index is being constructed that allows for statistical testing. This new framework is flexible with respect to the number of underlying models, and accounts for nonlinearities within the evolution of technology adoption. It can be considered as novel because it gives opportunity to a quantitative analysis of technology adoption that has not existed before. Subsequently, this framework is applied for an integrated model of technology adoption.

翻译：技术采纳研究旨在探讨个体、企业及行业开始使用新技术的动因与过程。此外，技术采纳本身可分解为若干底层子过程，这些子过程由有限数量的连续状态表征，以捕捉其演化特性。基于此，本文构建了一种可进行统计检验的技术采纳指数。该新框架对底层模型数量保持灵活性，并能解释技术采纳演化过程中的非线性特征。其创新性在于提供了前所未有的技术采纳定量分析途径。随后，该框架被应用于技术采纳的集成模型。