The Complexity Challenge
Technological Innovation for the 21st Century
Published on 3. June 1999
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-85567-608-4 (ISBN)
Description
Between the 1970s-90s, innovation has changed the character of the world's most valuable commercial technologies - they have become complex. This text investigates the fundamental rethinking required by the transition to a production system whose guiding intelligence is self-organizing networks.
Between the 1970s-90s, innovation has changed the character of the world's most valuable commercial technologies - they have become complex. This text investigates the fundamental rethinking required by the transition to a production system whose guiding intelligence is self-organizing networks.
Between the 1970s-90s, innovation has changed the character of the world's most valuable commercial technologies - they have become complex. This text investigates the fundamental rethinking required by the transition to a production system whose guiding intelligence is self-organizing networks.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
glossary, bibliograp
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85567-608-4 (9781855676084)
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Content
Part One: the silent emergence of complexity; fitting concept to reality; the evolution of technological innovation; complexity; summary of cases used in Part Two. Part Two: self-organization; network self-organization; network learning; path dependence. Part Three: emerging patterns; adaptive network strategies; adaptive public policies.