Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lane, David (Editor), Pumain, Denise (Editor), Leeuw, Sander Ernst van der (Editor), West, Geoffrey (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences ; 7
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Geography.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Archaeology.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Geography, general.; Sociology, general.; Regional/Spatial Science.

Innovation is nowadays a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. Yet, due to our generally reductionist scientific paradigm, invention and innovation are rarely studied scientifically. Most work prefers to study its context and its consequences. As a result, we are...