TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lane,David
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TI  - Complexity perspectives in innovation and social change
T2  - Methodos
SN  - 9781402096624 (hbk.)
U1  - 303.483 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - Springer
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Social change
KW  - Emergence (Philosophy)
KW  - Complexity (Philosophy)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
N2  - Our society's scientific paradigm prevents us from benefiting from the processes of invention and innovation. This book analyzes the topic in depth, positing that a 'complex systems' approach is better suited than our traditional approach to the phenomenon
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