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The Early Development of the Steam Engine: An Evolutionary Interpretation using Complexity Theory

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Frenken, K. (URU, Utrecht University)
Nuvolari, A. (ecis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)

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  1. Marengo, Luigi, et al, 2000. "The Structure of Problem-Solving Knowledge and the Structure of Organizations," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press, vol. 9(4), pages 757-88, December.
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  2. Giovanni Dosi & Daniel A. Levinthal & Luigi Marengo, 2003. "Bridging contested terrain: linking incentive-based and learning perspectives on organizational evolution," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press, vol. 12(2), pages 413-436, April.
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  3. Herbert A. Simon, 2002. "Near decomposability and the speed of evolution," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press, vol. 11(3), pages 587-599, June.
  4. Halsey, Harlan I., 1981. "The Choice Between High-Pressure and Low-Pressure Steam Power in America in the Early Nineteenth Century," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 41(04), pages 723-744, December. [Downloadable!]
  5. Lee Altenberg, 1994. "Evolving Better Representations Through Selective Genome Growth," Working Papers 94-02-008, Santa Fe Institute.
  6. Frenken, Koen & Saviotti, Paolo P. & Trommetter, Michel, 1999. "Variety and niche creation in aircraft, helicopters, motorcycles and microcomputers," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 28(5), pages 469-488, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Auerswald, Philip & Kauffman, Stuart & Lobo, Jose & Shell, Karl, 2000. "The production recipes approach to modeling technological innovation: An application to learning by doing," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 24(3), pages 389-450, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  8. Frenken, K. & Nuvolari, A., 2002. "Entropy Statistics as a Framework to Analyse Technological Evolution," ECIS Working Papers 02.15, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Olav Sorenson & Jan W. Rivkin & Lee Fleming, 2005. "Informational Complexity and the Flow of Knowledge across social boundaries," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 0511, Utrecht University, Section of Economic Geography, revised Sep 2005. [Downloadable!]
  2. Ron Boschma & Koen Frenken, 2004. "Why is Economic Geography not an Evolutionary Science?," ERSA conference papers ersa04p393, European Regional Science Association. [Downloadable!]
  3. Carolina Castaldi & Roberto Fontana & Alessandro Nuvolari, 2006. "'Chariots of Fire': The Evolution of Tank Technology, 1915-1945," LEM Papers Series 2006/03, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Garavaglia, C., 2004. "History friendly simulations for modelling industrial dynamics," ECIS Working Papers 04.19, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology. [Downloadable!]
  5. Koen Frenken, 2006. "Technological innovation and complexity theory," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 137-155, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  6. Frenken, K. & Nuvolari, A., 2002. "Entropy Statistics as a Framework to Analyse Technological Evolution," ECIS Working Papers 02.15, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology. [Downloadable!]
  7. Verspagen, B., 2005. "Mapping Technological Trajectories as Patent Citation Networks. A Study on the History of Fuel Cell Research," ECIS Working Papers 05.11, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Malte Schwoon & Floortje Alkemade & Koen Frenken & Marko P. Hekkert, 2006. "Flexible transition strategies towards future well-to-wheel chains: an evolutionary modelling approach," Working Papers FNU-114, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Aug 2006. [Downloadable!]
  9. Nuvolari, A. & Verspagen, B. & Von Tunzelmann, N., 2003. "The Diffusion of the Steam Engine in Eighteenth-Century Britain," ECIS Working Papers 03.26, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology. [Downloadable!]
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