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Springer Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change: 7 (Methodos Series, 7)

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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. Review From the reviews: “This important book presents an articulated and original approach to understanding innovation as a collective, systemic, and evolutionary process engendered by generative relations that enable agents and social systems to overcome the challenges of the limits to growth. … this book makes an important contribution. It provides new foundations to implementing a broader evolutionary approach to economics … . this book makes a substantial contribution to implementing a systemic theory of innovation.” (Cristiano Antonelli, Regional Studies, Vol. 44 (4), May, 2010) From the Back Cover Innovation is nowadays a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. Yet, due to our generally reductionist scientific paradigm, invention and innovation are rarely studied scientifically. Most work prefers to study its context and its consequences. As a result, we are as a society, lacking the scientific tools to understand, improve or otherwise impact on the processes of invention and innovation. This book delves deeply into that topic, taking the position that the complex systems approach, with its emphasis on ‘emergence’, is better suited than our traditional approach to the phenomenon. In a collection of very coherent papers, which are the result of an EU-funded four year international research team’s effort, it addresses various aspect of the topic from different disciplinary angles. One of the main emphases is the need, in the social sciences, to move away from neo-darwinist ‘population thinking’ to ‘organization thinking’ if we want to understand social evolution. Another main emphasis is on developing a generative approach to invention and innovation, looking in detail at the contexts within which invention and innovation occur, and how these contexts impact on the chances for success or failure. Throughout, the book is infused with interesting new insights, but also presents several well-elaborated case studies that connect the ideas with a substantive body of ‘real world’ information. The research presented in this volume, developed in the EC-funded Project ISCOM (Information Society as a Complex System), takes off from two fundamental premises: -- to guide innovation policies, taking account of the social, economic and geographic dimensions of innovation processes are at least as critical as the science and technology; and -- complex systems science is essential for understanding these dimensions.

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Brand: Springer
Format: Paperback
ASIN: 9048181798
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
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Release Date: 28 October 2010
Listed Since: 23 December 2010

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