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The innovation process as a complex structure with multilevel rules
Dias, Marcelo; Pedrozo, Eugenio; Silva, Tania - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 24 (2014) 5, pp. 1067-1084
<Para ID="Par1">Increasingly, innovation is conceived in a context of conventions or rules and complexity. However …, there is a need for a theoretical basis that describes the innovation process based on complexity. In this essay, we propose … a multilevel micro-meso-macro framework that aims to meet this need and further the discussion on complexity. In this …
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Toward Multi-Level, Multi-Theoretical Model Portfolios for Scientific Enterprise Workforce Dynamics
Yilmaz, Levent - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 14 (2011) 4, pp. 2-2
Development of theoretically sound methods and strategies for informed science and innovation policy analysis is critically important to each nation's ability to benefit from R&D investments. Gaining deeper insight into complex social processes that influence the growth and formation of...
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Interaction effects of media and message on perceived complexity, risk and trust of innovative products
Molina-Castillo, Francisco-Jose; Lopez-Nicolas, Carolina; … - In: European Management Journal 30 (2012) 6, pp. 577-587
and more trustworthy when quality claims are advertised online. In addition, perceived complexity and perceived risk are …
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The anatomy of emergence, with a focus upon capital formation
Harper, David A.; Endres, Anthony M. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 2, pp. 352-367
Emergence is a unifying theme of both evolutionary economics and complex systems theory. In spite of this centrality, emergence in economics has not been subject to an extensive critical analysis. This paper remedies this deficit. We identify several conditions that economic patterns (i.e....
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INNOVACIÓN COMO CAMBIO INSTITUCIONAL: UNA APROXIMACIÓN DESDE LAS TEORÍAS DE LA COMPLEJIDAD / INNOVATION AS INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: A COMPLEXITY APPROACH
Guia Julve, J.; Prats Planagumá, L.; Comas Trayter, J. - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 15 (2009) 2, pp. 93-104
of a new paradigm that goes beyond the previous two. It lies on the postulates of the complexity theories and takes the …
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Innovation creation and diffusion in a social network: an agent based approach
Lamieri, Marco; Ietri, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
techniques in social science and economics as a way to investigate complexity. The model investigates the dynamics of a …
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Search, Failure, and the Value of Moderate Patience
Baumann, Oliver - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 62 (2010) 3, pp. 234-259
Conventional wisdom suggests that successful innovation in complex and novel environments requires patience – persistence despite failures – to ensure broad search for good solutions. Using an agent-based simulation model, I show that the link between patience and innovation is complex:...
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Technological innovation and complexity theory
Frenken, Koen - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 15 (2006) 2, pp. 137-155
Complexity theory has become influential in recent models in social science. In the context of innovations and new … process has received less attention. This paper discusses three families of complexity models of technological innovation …-parameterisation'. The paper ends with discussing the methodological challenges and critiques regarding the application of complexity theory …
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FROM A FEW CRAFTSMEN TO AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF ALLIANCES: BOSCH DIESEL FUEL INJECTION SYSTEMS
KASH, DON E.; AUGER, ROBIN N. - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 09 (2005) 01, pp. 19-45
The evolution of the fuel injection technology for diesel engines initiated and repeatedly innovated since 1922 by Robert Bosch GmbH of Stuttgart, Germany, is used to illustrate the management and policy adaptations necessary to carry out repeated innovations as technologies move through...
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Steps to an ecology of product innovation
Baxter, Seaton; Bruce, Fraser - 2011
There are many crises in today's world and most of them are interconnected and interrelated and contribute to what Brown (2007) recently referred to as 'dark times'. The list seems endless - climate change, pollution and loss of bio-diversity, social inequality and injustice, organized crime and...
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