Öfter mal was Neues - Wie geht eigentlich Innovation? Menschen unterschiedlichster, auch fachfremder Disziplinen an einen Tisch zu bringen, damit diese gemeinsam eine innovative Lösung erarbeiten? Was erst einmal utopisch klingt, wurde bereits in den 70er Jahren an der Standford University als...

Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering: how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself.

This paper analyses the process of knowledge growth in a branch of medical science. Our study of scientific advances in glaucoma research is organized in two parts. In the first we present a qualitative overview of the problem sequences that have characterized 150 years of medical research in...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of networks in which new knowledge emerges and through which it is exchanged. Our conjecture is that the structure of a network cannot be divorced from the dynamics of the knowledge underpinning its activities. In so doing we look beyond...