The Complexity Challenge: Technological Innovation for the 21st Century (Science, Technology & the International Political Economy) - Hardcover

Rycroft, Robert W.; Kash, Don E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855676087 ISBN 13: 9781855676084

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Robert W. Rycroft is Associate Professor at the Center for International Science and Technology Policy at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855676087
• ISBN 13: 9781855676084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224