early adopter

Examples of late adopter

late adopter
The benefits of being a lateadopter!
From Wired
It seems a more constant doctor characteristic to be a lateadopter than being an early adopter (20).
He says that major technology cycles generally last 25 years, with the "bulk of the purchases" happening the last 5-10 years as late adopters sign on.
From Business Insider
Their study revealed that, ‘early adopters and non-adopters both perceived soil erosion as being less of a problem than did late adopters’ (p. 283).
Any community has early and late adopters, and those who will actively resist particular innovations, even after the numbers of adopters reaches a critical mass.
One set of countries seems to be composed of mostly early adopters, and another set of countries appears to be composed mostly of late adopters.
They further found that younger farmers were more likely to be early adopters and their decisions were less profit oriented than medium and late adopters.
With respect to characteristics of the prescribers, it has been assumed that there are early and late adopters, but this was not fully confirmed by research findings.
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