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Agent-Based Modelling of Novelty Creating Behavior and Sectoral Growth Effects—Linking the Creative and the Destructive Side of Innovation

In: The Two Sides of Innovation

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  • Frank Beckenbach

    (University of Kassel)

  • Maria Daskalakis

    (University of Kassel)

  • David Hofmann

    (University of Kassel)

Abstract

For grasping the relationship between novelty creating activities of agents and growth of economic aggregates, a multi-level approach is suggested. The first level specifies the triggering conditions for novelty creating activities for the agents, i.e. firms. Here the behavioral elements and the modes of actions for the firms are portrayed using an agent-based approach (Section2). On the second level, the consequences of successful innovations and imitations in a given sector of economic activities are dealt with (Section 3). This depends on the frequency of successful novelties and on the way they diffuse in that sector. We use an agent-related functional approach, applying difference equations for depicting the stylized facts of the diffusion dynamics. Only if these different levels of economic dynamics are distinguished as well as related to each other, is it possible to derive aggregate effects of novelties for the whole economy. This will be done by way of computer simulations (Section 4). Conclusions are drawn in Section5.

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  • Frank Beckenbach & Maria Daskalakis & David Hofmann, 2013. "Agent-Based Modelling of Novelty Creating Behavior and Sectoral Growth Effects—Linking the Creative and the Destructive Side of Innovation," Economic Complexity and Evolution, in: Guido Buenstorf & Uwe Cantner & Horst Hanusch & Michael Hutter & Hans-Walter Lorenz & Fritz Rahmeyer (ed.), The Two Sides of Innovation, edition 127, pages 129-158, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eccchp:978-3-319-01496-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01496-8_7
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