Technological innovation and complexity theory

References

• Albert , R. and Barabási , A. L. 2002 . Statistical mechanics of complex networks . Reviews of Modern Physics , 74 : 67 – 97 .
   Google Scholar
• Altenberg , L. 1994 . “ Evolving better representations through selective genome growth ” . In Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence , Edited by: Schaffer , J. D. , Schwefel , H. P. and Kitano , H. 182 – 187 . Piscataway, NJ : IEEE .
   Google Scholar
• Altenberg , L. 1995 . “ Genome growth and the evolution of the genotype–phenotype map ” . In Evolution and Biocomputation , Edited by: Banzhaf , W. and Eckman , F. H. 205 – 259 . Berlin & Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag .
   Google Scholar
• Altenberg , L. 1997 . “ NK fitness landscapes ” . In The Handbook of Evolutionary Computation , Edited by: Back , T. , Fogel , D. and Michalewicz , Z. Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Anderson , P. W. , Arrow , K. J. and Pines , D. 1988 . The Economy as an Evolving Complex System , Edited by: Anderson , P. W. , Arrow , K. J. and Pines , D. Reading, Mass : Addison-Wesley .
   Google Scholar
• Andersson , C. , Hellervik , A. , Lindgren , K. , Hagson , A. and Tornberg , J. 2003 . Urban economy as a scale-free network . Physical Review E , 68 ( 3 ) 036124 Part 2
   Google Scholar
• Andersson , C. , Frenken , K. and Hellervik , A. 2005 . A complex network approach to urban growth. Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography #05.05 . Available Online at: http://econ.geog.uu.nl/peeg/peeg.html
   Google Scholar
• Arthur , W. B. 1989 . Competing technologies, increasing returns, and lock-in by historical events . Economic Journal , 99 : 116 – 131 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arthur , W. B. 1990 . Silicon Valley locational clusters: when do increasing returns imply monopoly? . Mathematical Social Sciences , 19 ( 3 ) : 235 – 251 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arthur , W. B. , Durlauf , S. N. and Lane , D. A. 1997 . The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II , Edited by: Arthur , W. B. , Durlauf , S. N. and Lane , D. A. Reading, Mass : Addison-Wesley .
   Google Scholar
• Atkinson , A. B. and Stiglitz , J. E. 1969 . A new view of technological change . Economic Journal , 79 : 573 – 578 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Aversi , R. , Dosi , G. , Fagiolo , G. , Meacci , M. and Olivetti , C. 1999 . Demand dynamics with socially evolving preferences . Industrial and Corporate Change , 8 ( 2 ) : 353 – 408 .
   Google Scholar
• Auerswald , P. , Kauffman , S. , Lobo , J. and Shell , K. 2000 . The production recipes approach to modeling technological innovation: an application to learning-by-doing . Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control , 24 : 389 – 450 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Axelrod , R. 1997 . The Complexity of Cooperation , Princeton : Princeton University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Axelrod , R. , Mitchell , W. , Thomas , R. E. , Bennett , D. S. and Bruderer , E. 1995 . Coalition formation in standard-setting alliances . Management Science , 41 ( 9 ) : 1493 – 1508 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barabási , A. L. and Albert , R. 1999 . Emergence of scaling in random networks . Science , 286 : 509 – 512 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bikhchandani , S. , Hirshleifer , D. and Welch , I. 1998 . Learning from the behavior of others: Conformity, fads, and informational cascades . Journal of Economic Perspectives , 12 ( 3 ) : 151 – 170 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Birchenhall , C. 1995 . Modular technical change and genetic algorithms . Computational Economics , 8 : 233 – 253 .
   Google Scholar
• Breschi , S. and Lissoni , F. 2003 . Mobility and social networks: localised knowledge spillovers revisited . CESPRI Working Paper , 142 Available Online at: www.cespri.it
   Google Scholar
• Bruckner , E. , Ebeling , W. , Jiménez , Montãno , M. A. and Scharnhorst , A. 1996 . Nonlinear stochastic effects of substitution—an evolutionary approach . Journal of Evolutionary Economics , 6 : 1 – 30 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Clark , K. B. 1985 . The interaction of design hierarchies and market concepts in technological evolution . Research Policy , 14 : 235 – 251 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cowan , R. 2004 . Network models of innovation and knowledge diffusion . MERIT Research Memorandum RM2004–016, Available Online at: www.merit.unimaas.nl
   Google Scholar
• Cowan , R. , Cowan , W. and Swann , P. 1997 . A model of demand with interaction between consumers . International Journal of Industrial Organisation , 15 : 711 – 732 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cowan , R. and Jonard , N. 2003 . The dynamics of collective invention . Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization , 52 ( 4 ) : 513 – 532 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cowan , R. and Jonard , N. 2004 . Network structure and the diffusion of knowledge . Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control , 28 ( 8 ) : 1557 – 1575 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dalle , J.-M. 1997 . Heterogeneity vs. externalities in technological competition: a tale of possible technological landscapes . Journal of Evolutionary Economics , 7 : 395 – 413 .
   Google Scholar
• David , P. A. 1975 . Technical Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth. Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century , London : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• David , P. A. 1993 . “ Path-dependence and predictability in dynamic systems with local network externalities: a paradigm for historical economics ” . In Technology and the Wealth of Nations , Edited by: Foray , D. and Freeman , C. 208 – 231 . London & New York : Pinter .
   Google Scholar
• Dawid , H. 2004 . “ Agent-based models of innovation and technological change ” . In Handbook of Computational Economics II: Agent-based Computational Economics Edited by: Tesfatsion , L. and Judd , K. in press
   Google Scholar
• Dosi , G. , Levinthal , D. and Marengo , L. 2003 . Bridging contested terrain: linking incentive-based and learning perspectives on organizational evolution . Industrial and Corporate Change , 12 ( 2 ) : 413 – 436 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Duysters , G. and Hagedoorn , J. 1996 . Internationalization of corporate technology through strategic partnering: An empirical investigation . Research Policy , 25 ( 1 ) : 1 – 12 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Edmonds , B. and Moss , S. 2004 . From KISS to KIDS—an ‘anti-simplistic’ modelling approach . CPM Report no. 04–132, 1 April, Available Online at: http://cfpm.org/cpmreps.html
   Google Scholar
• Fagiolo , G. and Dosi , G. 2003 . Exploitation, exploration and innovation in a model of endogenous growth with locally interacting agents . Structural Change and Economic Dynamics , 14 ( 3 ) : 237 – 273 .
   Google Scholar
• Fagiolo , G. , Dosi , G. and Gabriele , R. 2004 . Matching, bargaining, and wage setting in an evolutionary model of labor market and output dynamics . Advances in Complex Systems , 7 ( 2 ) : 157 – 186 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fagiolo , G. , Marengo , L. and Valente , M. 2005 . Population learning in a model with random payoff landscapes and endogenous networks . Computational Economics , in press
   Google Scholar
• Fisher , J. C. and Pry , R. H. 1971 . A simple substitution model of technical change . Technological Forecasting and Social Change , 3 : 75 – 81 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fleming , L. and Sorenson , O. 2001 . Technology as a complex adaptive system: evidence from patent data . Research Policy , 30 : 1019 – 1039 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foster , J. 2004 . “ Econometrics and evolutionary economics ” . In Applied Evolutionary Economics and Complex Systems , Edited by: Foster , J. and Hölzl , W. 15 – 35 . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar .
   Google Scholar
• Foster , J. and Hölzl , W. 2004 . Applied Evolutionary Economics and Complex Systems , Edited by: Foster , J. and Hölzl , W. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar .
   Google Scholar
• Foster , J. and Wild , P. 1999 . Econometric modelling in the presence of evolutionary change . Cambridge Journal of Economics , 23 ( 6 ) : 749 – 770 .
   Google Scholar
• Frenken , K. 2005 . Innovation, Evolution and Complexity Theory , Cheltenham & Northampton, Mass : Edward Elgar . in press
   Google Scholar
• Frenken , K. , Marengo , L. and Valente , M. 1999 . “ Interdependencies, near-decomposability and adaptation ” . In Computational Techniques for Modelling Learning in Economics , Edited by: Brenner , T. 145 – 165 . Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers .
   Google Scholar
• Frenken , K. and Nuvolari , A. 2004 . The early history of steam engine technology: an evolutionary interpretation using complexity theory . Industrial and Corporate Change , 13 ( 2 ) : 419 – 450 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frenken , K. and Valente , M. 12 February 2004 . “ A fitness landscape approach to decentralised problem-solving ” . In mimeo , 12 February , Utrecht University .
   Google Scholar
• Friedman , M. 1953 . “ Methodology of positive economics ” . In Essays in Positive Economics , 3 – 43 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press .
   Google Scholar
• Gavetti , G. and Levinthal , D. 2000 . Looking forward and looking backward: cognitive and experiential search . Administrative Science Quarterly , 45 ( 1 ) : 113 – 137 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Grebel , T. 2004 . Entrepreneurship: A New Perspective , London & New York : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Guimera , R. and Amaral , L. A.N. 2004 . Modeling the world-wide airport network . European Physical Journal B , 38 ( 2 ) : 381 – 385 .
   Google Scholar
• Hagedoorn , J. 2002 . Inter-firm R&D partnerships: an overview of major trends and patterns since 1960 . Research Policy , 31 ( 4 ) : 477 – 492 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hartmann-Sonntag , I. , Scharnhorst , A. and Ebeling , W. 2004 . Modelling self-organization and innovation processes in networks . ArXiv: cond-mat/0406425 v1, 18 June
   Google Scholar
• Henderson , R. and Clark , K. 1990 . Architectural innovation . Administrative Science Quarterly , 35 : 9 – 30 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Holland , J. H. 1975 . Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems , Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press .
   Google Scholar
• Hovhannisian , K. 2004 . Imperfect local search strategies on technology landscapes: satisfying, deliberate experimentation and memory dependence . ROCK Working Paper, University of Trento
   Google Scholar
• Hovhannisian , K. and Valente , M. 2004 . Modeling directed local search strategies on technology landscapes: depth and breadth . ROCK Working Paper, University of Trento
   Google Scholar
• Jackson , M. O. and Wolinsky , A. 1996 . A strategic model of social and economic networks . Journal of Economic Theory , 71 : 44 – 74 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jaffe , A. and Trajtenberg , M. 2002 . Patents, Citations & Innovations. A Window on the Knowledge Economy , Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press .
   Google Scholar
• Kauffman , S. A. 1993 . The Origins of Order. Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution , New York & Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Kauffman , S. A. and Macready , W. G. 1995 . Technological evolution and adaptive organizations . Complexity , 1 : 26 – 43 .
   Google Scholar
• Kauffman , S. A. , Lobo , J. and Macready , W. G. 2000 . Optimal search on a technology landscape . Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , 43 : 141 – 166 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Klepper , S. 1996 . Entry, exit, growth and innovation in the product life cycle . American Economic Review , 86 : 562 – 583 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kwasnicki , W. 1996 . Knowledge, Innovation, and Economy. An Evolutionary Exploration , Cheltenham : Edward Elgar .
   Google Scholar
• Levinthal , D. A. 1997 . Adaptation on rugged landscapes . Management Science , 43 : 934 – 950 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levinthal , D. A. and Warglien , M. 1999 . Landscape design: designing for local action in complex worlds . Organization Science , 10 : 342 – 357 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Leydesdorff , L. and van den Besselaar , P. 1994 . Evolutionary Economics and Chaos Theory: New Directions in Technology Studies , Edited by: Leydesdorff , L. and van den Besselaar , P. London : Pinter .
   Google Scholar
• Llerena , P. and Lorentz , A. 2004 . Alternative theories on economic growth and the co-evolution of macro-dynamics and technological change: A survey . LEM Working Paper 2003/28, Pisa
   Google Scholar
• Mäki , U. 1994 . “ Reorienting the assumptions issue ” . In New Directions in Economic Methodology , Edited by: Backhouse , R. 236 – 256 . London and New York : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Malerba , F. , Nelson , R. R. , Orsenigo , L. and Winter , S. G. 1999 . History friendly models of industry evolution: the case of the computer industry . Industrial and Corporate Change , 8 : 3 – 40 .
   Google Scholar
• Marengo , L. , Dosi , G. , Legrenzi , P. and Pasquali , C. 2000 . The structure of problem-solving knowledge and the structure of organizations . Industrial and Corporate Change , 9 : 757 – 788 .
   Google Scholar
• McCarthy , I. P. 2003 . Technology management—a complex adaptive systems approach . International Journal of Technology Management , 25 ( 8 ) : 728 – 745 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCarthy , I. P. 2004 . Manufacturing strategy: understanding the fitness landscape . International Journal of Operations & Production Management , 24 ( 1–2 ) : 124 – 150 .
   Google Scholar
• Metcalfe , J. S. 1988 . “ The diffusion of innovations: an interpretative survey ” . In Technical Change and Economic Theory , Edited by: Dosi , G. , Freeman , C. , Nelson , R. , Silverberg , G. and Soete , L. 560 – 589 . London : Pinter .
   Google Scholar
• Nelson , R. R. and Winter , S. G. 1982 . An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change , Cambridge, Mass. & London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Ozik , J. , Hunt , B. R. and Ott , E. 2004 . Growing networks with geographical attachment preference: Emergence of small worlds . Physical Review E , 69 ( 2 ) Art. No. 026108 Part 2, February
   Google Scholar
• Page , S. E. 1996 . Two measures of difficulty . Economic Theory , 8 : 321 – 346 .
   Google Scholar
• Plouraboue , F. , Steyer , A. and Zimmerman , J.-B. 1998 . Learning induced criticality in consumers’ adoption pattern: a neural network approach . Economics of Innovation and New Technology , 6 : 73 – 90 .
   Google Scholar
• Powell , W. W. , Koput , K. W. and Smith-Doerr , L. 1996 . Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: networks of learning in biotechnology . Administrative Science Quarterly , 41 ( 1 ) : 116 – 145 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pumain , D. 2004 . Scaling laws and urban Systems . Santa Fe Working Paper 04–02–002, Available Online at: www.santafe.edu
   Google Scholar
• Putsch , F. 2003 . Analysis and modeling of science collaboration networks . Advances in Complex Systems , 6 ( 4 ) : 477 – 485 .
   Google Scholar
• Pyka , A. and Fagiolo , G. 2005 . “ Agent-Based Modelling: A Methodology for Neo-Schumpeterian Economics ” . In Discussion Paper Series , Vol. 272 , University of Augsburg, Department of Economics . Available Online at: www.wiwi.uni-augsburg.de/vwl/institut/inst-forsch/
   Google Scholar
• Pyka , A. and Kuppers , G. 2002 . Innovation Networks: Theory and Practice , Edited by: Pyka , A. and Kuppers , G. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar .
   Google Scholar
• Rivkin , J. W. 2000 . Imitation of complex strategies . Management Science , 46 : 824 – 844 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rivkin , J. W. 2001 . Reproducing knowledge: replication without imitation at moderate complexity . Organization Science , 12 ( 3 ) : 274 – 293 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rivkin , J. W. and Siggelkow , N. 2003 . Balancing search and stability: Interdependencies among elements of organizational design . Management Science , 49 ( 3 ) : 290 – 311 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Saviotti , P. P. 1996 . Technological Evolution, Variety and the Economy , Edward Elgar : Cheltenham & Brookfield .
   Google Scholar
• Silverberg , G. 2003 . “ Long waves: conceptual, empirical and modelling issues ” . In The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics , Edited by: Hanusch , H. and Pyka , A. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar . (also MERIT Research Memorandum RM2003–015, in press, University of L’Aquila, Italy). Available Online at: www.merit.unimaas.nl
   Google Scholar
• Silverberg , G. , Dosi , G. and Orsenigo , L. 1988 . Innovation, diversity and diffusion: a self-organisation model . Economic Journal , 98 : 1032 – 1054 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Silverberg , G. and Verspagen , B. 1994 . Learning, innovation and economic growth: a long-run model of industrial dynamics . Industrial and Corporate Change , 3 : 199 – 223 .
   Google Scholar
• Silverberg , G. and Verspagen , B. 2005 . A percolation model of innovation in complex technology spaces . Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control , 29 ( 1–2 ) : 225 – 244 .
   Google Scholar
• Simon , H. A. 1969 . The Sciences of the Artificial, , 3rd edn. , Cambridge, Mass. & London : MIT Press . 1996
   Google Scholar
• Simon , H. A. 2002 . Near decomposability and the speed of evolution . Industrial and Corporate Change , 11 : 587 – 599 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sommer , S. C. and Loch , C. H. 2004 . Selectionism and learning in projects with complexity and unforeseeable uncertainty . Management Science , 50 ( 10 ) : 1334 – 1347 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stauffer , D. and Aharony , A. 1994 . Introduction to Percolation Theory , London : Taylor and Francis .
   Google Scholar
• Solomon , S. , Weisbuch , G. , de Arcangelis , L. , Jan , N. and Stauffer , D. 2000 . Social percolation models . Physica A , 277 ( 1–2 ) : 239 – 247 .
   Google Scholar
• Teece , D. , Pisano , G. and Shuen , A. 1997 . Dynamic capabilities and strategic management . Strategic Management Journal , 18 ( 7 ) : 509 – 533 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Valente , M. 2005 . Qualitative simulation modelling . Mimeo , 9 February
   Google Scholar
• Valente , M. and Andersen , E. S. 2002 . A hands-on approach to evolutionary simulation: Nelson and Winter models in the Laboratory for Simulation Development . The Electronic Journal of Evolutionary Modeling and Economic Dynamics , 1 ( 15 ) 1003, Available Online at: http://beagle.u-bordeaux4.fr/jemed/
   Google Scholar
• van den Bergh , J. 2004 . “ Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics: retrospect and prospect ” . In Applied Evolutionary Economics and Complex Systems , Edited by: Foster , J. and Hölzl , W. 239 – 275 . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar .
   Google Scholar
• Verspagen , B. and Duysters , G. 2004 . The small worlds of strategic technology alliances . Technovation , 24 ( 7 ) : 563 – 571 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wasserman , S. and Faust , K. 1994 . Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Watts , D. J. 2003 . Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age , New York : Norton .
   Google Scholar
• Watts , D. J. and Strogatz , S. 1998 . Collective dynamics of small-world networks . Nature , 393 : 440 – 442 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weisbuch , G. , Kirman , A. and Herreiner , D. 2000 . Market organisation and trading relationships . The Economic Journal , 110 : 411 – 436 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Windrum , P. 2004 . “ Neo-Schumpeterian simulation models ” . In The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics , Edited by: Hanusch , H. and Pyka , A. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar . (also MERIT Research Memorandum RM2004–002, in press). Available Online at: www.merit.unimaas.nl
   Google Scholar
• Winter , S. G. 1984 . Schumpeterian competition in alternative technological regimes . Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , 5 : 287 – 320 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wright , S. 1932 . “ The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding, and selection in evolution ” . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Genetics Vol. 1 , 356 – 366 .
   Google Scholar