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Simulating Innovation

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  • Christopher Watts
  • Nigel Gilbert

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Christopher Watts and Nigel Gilbert explore the generation, diffusion and impact of innovations, which can now be studied using computer simulations.

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  • Christopher Watts & Nigel Gilbert, 2014. "Simulating Innovation," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 13981.
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    5. Geoffrey B. West & James H. Brown & Brian J. Enquist, 1999. "The Fourth Dimension of Life: Fractal Geometry and Allometric Scaling of Organisms," Working Papers 99-07-047, Santa Fe Institute.
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    Keywords

    Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology; Social Policy and Sociology;
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    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;

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