Simulating Innovation: Computer-Based Tools for Rethinking Innovation

by Nigel Gilbert and Christopher Watts

Book Overview

Christopher Watts and Nigel Gilbert explore the generation, diffusion and impact of innovations, which can now be studied using computer simulations. Agent-based simulation models can be used to explain the innovation that emerges from interactions among complex, adaptive, diverse networks of firms, people, technologies, practices and resources. This book provides a critical review of recent advances in agent-based modelling and other forms of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849801606
• ISBN13: 9781849801607
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages