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To explore the space between the theories of the Diffusion of Innovations and Universal Darwinism, we first examine a case study of the history of the greenhouse horticulture sector of the Netherlands, comparing and contrasting the narrow focus of Diffusion of Innovations and the wider focus of...
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most frequent accusations against the peer review system is that it inhibits true innovation. The availability of better …
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Development of theoretically sound methods and strategies for informed science and innovation policy analysis is … examined to facilitate the study of incentives, strategies, mobility, and stability of the science-based innovation ecosystem …
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We report results of economic policy experiments carried out in the framework of the EURACE agent-based macroeconomic model featuring a distinct geographical dimension and heterogeneous workers with respect to skill types. Using a calibrated model able to replicate a range of stylized facts of...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of technological opportunities and knowledge tacitness on inter-firm network formation, under two different industry regimes. In the first regime environment is stable and the aim of firms is to exploit knowledge. In this case, they attribute...
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A multi-agent simulation embodying a theory of innovation networks has been built and used to suggest a number of … policy-relevant conclusions. The simulation animates a model of innovation (the successful exploitation of new ideas) and … it is possible to reproduce qualitatively the characteristics of innovation networks in two sectors: personal and mobile …
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This paper summarises some previously published work on imitation, experimentation (or innovation) and aspiration … the context of existing literature on imitation and innovation in related contexts. A form of imitation in which land uses …
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innovation, demand structure, and concentration. …
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Innovation (Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, 2010). We take this opportunity to reaffirm our personal view on several … the proposition of a novel way of looking at knowledge and innovation. …
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The paper elaborates the notion of innovation as an emerging property of complex system dynamics and presents an agent …, reacting to out-of-equilibrium conditions, can actually take advantage of external knowledge available within the innovation …
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