Innovation in Complex Social Systems

by Petra Ahrweiler

Book Overview

Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists.

Innovation in Complex Social Systems uses a "hard science" approach to examine innovation in a new way. Its contributors come from a wide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415558700
• ISBN13: 9780415558709
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"