Analogies can trigger breakthrough ideas in new product development. Numerous examples demonstratethat substantial innovations often result from transferring problem solutions from one industry ordomain to another. For instance, the designers of the new running shoe generation of Nike,...

The paper gives attention to the question of whether the development of evolutionarytheories in biology over the last twenty years has any implications for evolutionaryeconomics. Though criticisms of Darwin and the modern synthesis have alwaysexisted, most of them have not been widely accepted...