The dynamics of technological substitution: the case of eco-innovation diffusion of surface cleaning products

Some eco-innovations have already reached a mature state, but they diffuse slowly. There is little known about the importance of various factors on the diffusion process of eco-innovations. The aim of this research is to propose a conceptual model for eco-innovation diffusion, where particular case study of eco-innovation – micro-fibre cloth (MFC) for surface cleaning purposes – is given. The work will study the relative importance of various motivations on diffusion processes as well as the influence of information campaigns. This novel methodology has been developed under the system dynamics framework and is coupled with the logistic regression model. Structural validation tests were done…

The Baltic Sea region: hard and soft security reconsidered, Māris Andžāns & Ilvija Bruģe (eds), Riga, Latvian Institute of International Affairs, 2016, 206 pp., ISBN 978-9984-583-88-4

Founded in 1992, the Latvian Institute of International Affairs is the oldest and most prominent Latvian foreign policy think tank. It regularly publishes analyses and opinion papers on Latvian for...

Learning to laugh: satire and political thought in the Latvian ‘National Age’

ABSTRACTSatiric publications are often recognized as an important part of the political communication of the nineteenth century. Their role, however, in the national ‘awakenings’ in central eastern...

Politics with a human face: identity and experience in post-Soviet Europe