The complexity challenge : technological innovation for the 21st century

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    • Rycroft, Robert W.
    • Kash, Don E.

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The complexity challenge : technological innovation for the 21st century

Robert W. Rycroft and Don E. Kash

(Science, technology and the international political economy / series editor, John de la Mothe)

Pinter, 1999

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [266]-294

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Between the 1970s-90s, innovation has changed the character of the world's most valuable commercial technologies - they have become complex. This text investigates the fundamental rethinking required by the transition to a production system whose guiding intelligence is self-organizing networks.

Table of Contents

  • Part One: the silent emergence of complexity
  • fitting concept to reality
  • the evolution of technological innovation
  • complexity
  • summary of cases used in Part Two. Part Two: self-organization
  • network self-organization
  • network learning
  • path dependence. Part Three: emerging patterns
  • adaptive network strategies
  • adaptive public policies.

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