Innovation

Lesson 22 : Diffusion- Concepts Related to Diffusion

Innovation

An innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption.

  • Technology
    A technology is a design for instrumental action that reduces the uncertainty in the cause effect relationships involved in achieving a desired outcome. Technology usually has two components namely hardware and software.

  • Hardware
    A hardware aspect consists of material or physical objects of the tool. For example computer hardware like CPU, Keyboard, Mouse etc.

  • Software:
    Software aspect consists of the information base for the tool for example computer software consists of the coded commands, instructions and other information aspects.

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