Increasingly, economists concur that innovation processes are far from equilibrium phenomena. Indeed, these processes …, and I show how, taken together, these concepts provide a foundation for a complexity theory of innovation. I briefly … around their production and use, and new attributions of functionality generate perpetual novelty in innovation contexts …

about the future consequences of an innovation, which are based more on their diverse world views than on the innovation … innovation hype, innovation reliability, innovation negative unintended consequences, and critical realism. Findings – Critical … realist diagrams provide the basis for descriptions that can encompass an innovation's purpose; the functions and conditions …