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Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change

Innovation is nowadays a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. Yet, due to our generally reductionist scientific paradigm, invention and innovation are rarely studied scientifically. Most work prefers to study its context and its consequences. As a result, we are...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Lane, David (Editor ), Pumain, Denise (Editor ), van der Leeuw, Sander Ernst (Editor ), West, Geoffrey (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences, 7
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a From Biology to Society -- From Population to Organization Thinking -- The Innovation Innovation -- The Long-Term Evolution of Social Organization -- Biological Metaphors in Economics: Natural Selection and Competition -- Innovation in the Context of Networks, Hierarchies, and Cohesion -- Innovation and Urban Systems -- The Organization of Urban Systems -- The Self Similarity of Human Social Organization and Dynamics in Cities -- Innovation Cycles and Urban Dynamics -- Innovation and Market Systems -- Building a New Market System: Effective Action, Redirection and Generative Relationships -- Incorporating a New Technology into Agent-Artifact Space: The Case of Control System Automation in Europe -- Innovation Policy: Levels and Levers -- Modeling Innovation and Social Change -- The Future of Urban Systems: Exploratory Models -- Modeling Innovation -- An Agent-Based Model of Information Flows in Social Dynamics -- Exaptive Processes: An Agent Based Model -- Power Laws in Urban Supply Networks, Social Systems, and Dense Pedestrian Crowds -- Using Statistical Physics to Understand Relational Space: A Case Study from Mediterranean Prehistory. 
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