Complexity perspectives in innovation and social change /
ix, 492 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - (Methodos ; 7.) Content notes : Introduction.-
Part 1: From biology to society.-
Ch 1: Lane, Maxfield, Read and van der Leeuw, From population to organization thinking.-
Ch 2: Read, Lane and van der Leeuw, The innovation innovation.- Ch 3: van der Leeuw, Lane and Read, The long-term evolution of social organization.-
Ch 4: Ginzburg, Biological metaphors in economics: Natural selection and competition.-
Ch 5: White, Innovation in the context of networks, hierarchy and social cohesion.-
Part 2: Innovation and urban systems.-
Ch 6: Bretagnolle, Pumain, The organization of urban systems.- Ch 7: Bettancourt, Lobo and West, The self similarity of human social organization in cities.-
Ch 8: Pumain, Paulus and Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, Innovation cycles and urban dynamics.- Section 3: Innovation and market systems.-
Ch 9: Lane and Maxfield, Building a new market system.-
Ch 10: Rossi, Bertossi, Gurisatti and Sovieni, Incorporating a new technology into agent-artifact space: The case of control system automation in Europe.-
Ch 11: Russo and Rossi, Innovation policies: Levels and levers.- Section 4: Modeling innovation and social change.-
Ch 12: Pumain, Sanders, Bretagnolle, Glisse, and Mathian, The future of urban systems: exploratory models.-
Ch 13: Serra, Villani and Lane, Modeling innovation.-
Ch 14: Ferrari, Read, van der Leeuw, An agent based model of information flows in social dynamics.-
Ch 15: Villani, Bonacini, Ferrari and Serra, An agent based model of exaptive processes.-
Ch 16: Helbing, Kuhnert, Lammer, Johannsen, Gelsen, Ammoser and West, Power laws in urban supply networks, social systems and dense pedestrian.-
Ch 17: Knappett et al., Using statistical physics to understand relational space: A case study from Mediterranean.- Conclusion.- List of contributors Social change. Emergence (Philosophy) Complexity (Philosophy)
