Introduction.- Section 1: From biology to society.- Chapter 1: Lane, Maxfield, Read and van der Leeuw, From population to organization thinking.- Chapter 2: Read, Lane and van der Leeuw, The innovation innovation.- Chapter 3: van der Leeuw, Lane and Read, The long-term evolution of social organization.- Chapter 4: Ginzburg, Biological metaphors in economics: Natural selection and competition.- Chapter 5: White, Innovation in the context of networks, hierarchy and social cohesion.- Section 2: Innovation and urban systems.- Chapter 6: Bretagnolle, Pumain, The organization of urban systems.- Chapter 7: Bettancourt, Lobo and West, The self similarity of human social organization in cities.- Chapter 8: Pumain, Paulus and VacChapteriani-Marcuzzo, Innovation cycles and urban dynamics.- Section 3: Innovation and market systems.- Chapter 9: Lane and Maxfield, Building a new market system.- Chapter 10: Rossi, Bertossi, Gurisatti and Sovieni, Incorporating a new teChapternology into agent-artifact space: The case of control system automation in Europe.- Chapter 11: Russo and Rossi, Innovation policies: Levels and levers.- Section 4: Modeling innovation and social Chapterange.- Chapter 12: Pumain, Sanders, Bretagnolle, Glisse, and Mathian, The future of urban systems: exploratory models.- Chapter 13: Serra, Villani and Lane, Modeling innovation.- Chapter 14: Ferrari, Read, van der Leeuw, An agent based model of information flows in social dynamics.- Chapter 15: Villani, Bonacini, Ferrari and Serra, An agent based model of exaptive processes.- Chapter 16: Helbing, Kuhnert, Lammer, Johannsen, Gelsen, Ammoser and West, Power laws in urban supply networks, social systems and dense pedestrian.- Chapter 17: Knappett et al., Using statistical physics to understand relational space: A case study from Mediterranean.- Conclusion.- List of contributors.
EAN/ISBN : 9781402096631
Publisher(s): Springer Netherlands
Discussed keywords: Sozialer Wandel
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Author(s): Courgeau, Daniel - Franck, Robert - Lane, David