Chapter 1. Introduction: Scientific Journey into a Strange Paradigm -- Part I From Logic to Circular Causality -- Chapter 2. Events, Patterns, and Structure -- Chapter 3. Equilibrium, Resilience, and Emergence -- Chapter 4. Prediction, Butterfly Effect, and Decision Making -- Part II Describing...

We compare the individual-based \'threshold model\' of innovation diffusion in the version which has been studied by Young (1998), with an aggregate model we derived from it. This model allows us to formalise and test hypotheses on the influence of individual characteristics upon global...

Interest in construction industry (CI) innovation, particularly in information communication technology (ICT), has been steadily growing with the advent and widespread use of the Internet. However, despite its potential for delivering competitive advantage, many companies have failed to...

Network economics holds the view that individual actions and, in turn aggregate outcomes, are mainly determined by the interaction structure between heterogeneous economic agents. In this paper we study the diffusion of an innovation over a social network. More specifically, we study whether...

A number of continuous models to explain the influence of some parameters (e.g. advertising) on the diffusion of an innovation have been proposed since the seminal paper by Bass (1969). Only some recent papers deal with both spatial and temporal features as, i.e., De Cesare et al. (2003). There...

This paper is an attempt to use the ideas of deepening complexity and self organization theory to a life experiment in developing tourism in a Portuguese mountain region da Estrela.

Market growth is driven by product innovation. Beyond functional satiation the marginal utility of product performance and variety decreases. We argue that social comparisons underlying innovation diffusion results in consumer motivations for upward assimilation toward the behavior of better...

The objective is to present the economic impact of producers adopting Bt cotton and the rapid diffusion on the main producing countries: USA, China and India. The existing literature about this type of transgenic crop has been revised and the results of different research are presented. Bt...