The Complexity Challenge

Technological Innovation for the 21st Century

• Author(s): Robert W. Rycroft, Don E. Kash,
• Publisher: Pinter
• Pages: 303
• ISBN_10: 1855676087
  ISBN_13: 9781855676084
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Management , Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade , Business & Economics / Industries / General , Technology & Engineering / General , Technology & Engineering / Industrial Technology ,

Description:... This book investigates the fundamental rethinking required by the transition to a production system whose guiding intelligence is self-organizing networks. Utilizing an exploding literature in the science of complexity and evolutionary economics, plus six detailed case studies of complex technologies that have experienced repeated innovation, this study identifies distinct innovation patterns and explores what happens when changes in these patterns occur. This volume also identifies the conditions that signal the approach of such changes and investigates the appropriate strategy and policy responses used to deal with them.