
114 ◾ The Guide to Entrepreneurship: How to Create Wealth for Your Company
When faced with a technological innovation, most potential buyers seem
to react in a predictable manner, aggregating along an axis of risk aversion,
as proposed by Moore
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and is known as the Technology Adoption Life Cycle,
as shown in Figure5.15.
Potential buyers are (1) enthusiasts that exhibit a high desire to
explore. (2) Early adopters (visionaries) are inclined to exploit an inno-
vation to achieve an early competitive advantage and are very inuential
during the early stages of the adoption life cycle. Frequently there is a wide
time gap in sales before the (3