Threshold for Global Technology Adoption
A specific manufacturing process is invented in a country where labor is very expensive and fuel is cheap. This process is therefore not initially adopted in a second country where labor is cheap and fuel is expensive. Explain why continuous, small improvements to this process might not lead to its adoption in the second country, while the emergence of a 'dominating' version of the process—one that uses significantly less labor and less fuel—would likely be adopted by both.
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