Ebeling, Werner; Molgedey, Lutz; Reimann, Axel - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 287 (2000) 3, pp. 599-612
This work is devoted to applications of the Ehrenfest urn model to innovation and search processes. In the first part we discuss systems of two urns serving as models of innovation processes. The elementary act of innovation is considered as a transition from old (technologies, way of...