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Self-organization of knowledge economies
Lafond, Francois - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
infinite population it converges to the Yule-Simon distribution. The power law is steeper when innovation is high. Diffusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856431
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Innovation and diffusion of clean/green technology: Can patent commons help?
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … development and diffusion of green technologies. More generally, the paper sheds light on the performance of hybrid forms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856454
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A percolation model of the product lifecycle
Frenken, Koen; Silverberg, Gerald; Valente, Marco - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
on percolation dynamics. The model combines the concept of increasing returns to adoption with information diffusion … product lifecycle as an outcome of a single elementary process. The model also replicates the S-shaped diffusion curve and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712220
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Learning and the structure of citation networks
Lafond, Francois - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
The distribution of citations received by scientific publications can be approximated by a power law, a finding that has been explained by “cumulative advantage”. This paper argues that socially embedded learning is a plausible mechanism behind this cumulative advantage. A model assuming...
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