The paper aims to investigate the diffusion process of two competing innovative technologies in the health care sector. Novelties in cardiovascular surgery will serve as an example. Using a rather simple modeling approach for the decisions of adopters and suppliers we simulate the evolution of a...

The paper aims to investigate the diffusion process of two competing innovative technologies in the health care sector. Novelties in cardiovascular surgery will serve as an example. Using a rather simple modeling approach for the ecisions of adopters and suppliers we simulate the evolution of a...

This article suggests that the specialization of countries in the in-ternational trade is determined by the lead-lag market pattern of national mar-kets. Many internationally successful innovations have been adopted first in one country while other countries initially either preferred other...