Innovation in Complex Social Systems

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2010
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-55870-9 (ISBN)

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This book now has something new to say about innovation analysing it in complex social systems while making innovation understandable and tractable using tools such as computational network analysis and agent-based simulation.

Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists.

Innovation in Complex Social Systems uses a "hard science" approach to examine innovation in a new way. Its contributors come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including social and natural sciences, computer science, and mathematics. Using cutting-edge methodology, they deal with the complex aspects of socio-economic innovation processes. Its approach opens up a new paradigm for innovation research, making innovation understandable and tractable using tools such as computational network analysis and agent-based simulation.

This book of new work combines empirical analysis with a discussion of the tools and methods used to successfully investigate innovation from a range of international experts, and will be of interest to postgraduate students and scholars in economics, social science, innovation research and complexity science.

Petra Ahrweiler is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at University College Dublin (UCD), Director of UCD´s newly established Innovation Research Unit IRU, and Research Affiliate of the Engineering Systems Division at MIT, USA.

Part 1: The Systemic Aspects Of Innovation (Theory) 1. Innovation is Emergent 2.Innovation is Evolutionary Part 2: The Actors and Networks of Innovation (Empirical Research) 3. Innovation is Regional 4. Innovation is Small 5.Innovation is Big 6. Innovation is Policy-Driven 7. Innovation is Academic Part 3: The Systemic Aspects of Innovation (Modeling) 8.Innovation is Computable

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.2010
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Global Competition
Zusatzinfo	22 Tables, black and white; 60 Line drawings, black and white; 60 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	810 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	0-415-55870-0 / 0415558700
ISBN-13	978-0-415-55870-9 / 9780415558709
Zustand	Neuware