Introduction; From Population to Organization Thinking; The Innovation Innovation; The Long-Term Evolution of Social Organization; Biological Metaphors in Economics: Natural Selection and Competition; Innovation in the Context of Networks, Hierarchies, and Cohesion; The Organization of Urban Systems; The Self Similarity of Human Social Organization and Dynamics in Cities; Innovation Cycles and Urban Dynamics; Building a New Market System: Effective Action, Redirection and Generative Relationships
Summary
Innovation is a question of life and death for many of the economies of the western world. This book argues that the position that the complex systems approach, with its emphasis on 'emergence', is better suited than our traditional approach to the phenomenon
