Innovation Networks: New Approaches in Modelling and Analyzing - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 3540922660 ISBN 13: 9783540922667

Casa editrice: Springer Verlag, 2009

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social network analysis has been an established eld since the 1950s; in computer and information sciences, in biology, and of course in mathematics (graph theory) networks are central representations of objects and methods (De Nooy, forthc- ing). More detailed bibliometric studies have examined the individual, cognitive, and institutional composition of complex network theory (Morris and Yen 2004), and social network theory (Otte and Rousseau 2002). Among the more impor- ¨ tant pieces of literature are Borner et al. (2007), Bornholdt and Schuster (2003), Buchanan (2002), Dorogovtsev and Mendes (2003), Otte and Rousseau (2002), Newman (2003), and Watts (1999, 2004). Of these, Borner ¨ et al. (2007) stand out because they have most recently re-examined network science, considering it as a possible innovation in information science. All the reviews mentioned include efforts to build bridges between different scienti c disciplines and specialties. In this book we draw particular attention to the link between evolutionary economics and statistical physics. Despite this impressive development, claims that an entirely new science has been created (Barabasi ´ 2002) have nevertheless been the subject of criticism. - depth analyses of a subset of complex networks contributions (1991 2003) have shown that the notion of complex networks was already prevalent in a number of different elds before it became practically a brand name or the popular label for a new specialty area in physics, or a new cross-disciplinary paradigm.

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The science of graphs and networks has become by now a well-established tool for modelling and analyzing a variety of systems with a large number of interacting components. Starting from the physical sciences, applications have spread rapidly to the natural and social sciences, as well as to economics, and are now further extended, in this volume, to the concept of innovations, viewed broadly.

In an abstract, systems-theoretical approach, innovation can be understood as a critical event which destabilizes the current state of the system, and results in a new process of self-organization leading to a new stable state.

The contributions to this anthology address different aspects of the relationship between innovation and networks. The various chapters incorporate approaches in evolutionary economics, agent-based modeling, social network analysis and econophysics and explore the epistemic tension between insights into economics and society-related processes, and the insights into new forms of complex dynamics.

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• Editore: Springer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540922660
• ISBN 13: 9783540922667
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 330
• Redattore: Pyka Andreas, Scharnhorst Andrea
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