Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lane, David. (Editor), Pumain, Denise. (Editor), Leeuw, Sander Ernst. (Editor), West, Geoffrey. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences ; 7
• Subjects: Cartography.; Regional economics.; Social sciences.; Archaeology.; Sociology.; Social Sciences, general.; Quantitative Geography.; Regional/Spatial Science.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9663-1

Innovation is nowadays a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. Yet, due to our generally reductionist scientific paradigm, invention and innovation are rarely studied scientifically. Most work prefers to study its context and its consequences. As a result, we are...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Section 1: From biology to society
• Chapter 1: Lane, Maxfield, Read and van der Leeuw, From population to organization thinking
• Chapter 2: Read, Lane and van der Leeuw, The innovation innovation
• Chapter 3: van der Leeuw, Lane and Read, The long-term evolution of social organization
• Chapter 4: Ginzburg, Biological metaphors in economics: Natural selection and competition
• Chapter 5: White, Innovation in the context of networks, hierarchy and social cohesion
• Section 2: Innovation and urban systems
• Chapter 6: Bretagnolle, Pumain, The organization of urban systems
• Chapter 7: Bettancourt, Lobo and West, The self similarity of human social organization in cities
• Chapter 8: Pumain, Paulus and VacChapteriani-Marcuzzo, Innovation cycles and urban dynamics
• Section 3: Innovation and market systems
• Chapter 9: Lane and Maxfield, Building a new market system
• Chapter 10: Rossi, Bertossi, Gurisatti and Sovieni, Incorporating a new teChapternology into agent-artifact space: The case of control system automation in Europe
• Chapter 11: Russo and Rossi, Innovation policies: Levels and levers
• Section 4: Modeling innovation and social Chapterange
• Chapter 12: Pumain, Sanders, Bretagnolle, Glisse, and Mathian, The future of urban systems: exploratory models
• Chapter 13: Serra, Villani and Lane, Modeling innovation
• Chapter 14: Ferrari, Read, van der Leeuw, An agent based model of information flows in social dynamics
• Chapter 15: Villani, Bonacini, Ferrari and Serra, An agent based model of exaptive processes
• Chapter 16: Helbing, Kuhnert, Lammer, Johannsen, Gelsen, Ammoser and West, Power laws in urban supply networks, social systems and dense pedestrian
• Chapter 17: Knappett et al., Using statistical physics to understand relational space: A case study from Mediterranean
• Conclusion
• List of contributors.