Organisations, Innovation and Complexity: New Perspectives on the Knowledge Economy

University of Manchester
9-10th September 2004

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Paper Abstracts

Cristiano Antonelli
Collective Knowledge: Knowledge Complexity and Cumulative Evolution

Saurabh Arora & Robin Cowan
The growth of knowledge and complexity in an evolving network model of technological innovation

Baldwin, J. S. Lopez, A. Allen, P. M. Winder, B. & Ridgway, K.
Diversity in Management Decision-Making and Manufacturing Evolution

Barbara Becker
Leveraging internal knowledge through formal interaction in knowledge markets

Francesco Crespi & Natalia Zinovyeva
Mergers, Innovation and Market Structure: Insights from Evolutionary Economics

Kurt Dopfer
Meso Economics: A Unified Concept for the Analysis of Complexity and Evolution

John Foster
Why is Economics not a Complex Systems Science?

Timothy Foxon
Innovation systems as the setting for the co-evolution of technologies and institutions

Elizabeth Garnsey, Paul Heffernan & Simon Ford
Complex Dynamic Processes in the Evolution of Early Information and Communication Technologies

Michael Gell
Phase Transitions in Digital Enterprise

A. Hiley , H.J. Kahn , D.J. Petty1, W.S. Truscott & J. Wilson
Innovation in Systems through the deliberate creation of Emergent Properties

Masaaki Hirooka
Complexity in Discrete Innovation Systems

Nadia Jacoby
How Does The Firm Manage Internal Diversity? The Role of Internal Selection

Michael Lyons
Models and the Evolution of Strategy

Judy Matthews
Application of Complexity Theory to Firm Level Studies of Innovation: Preliminary Analysis

Jane McCarthy, Richard Smith & Michelle Petrusevich
Impact of a New Innovation – the New Media Cluster in Vancouver

E. Mitleton-Kelly
‘Co-Evolutionary Integration: The Co-creation of a New Organisational Form Following a Merger or Acquisition’

Mirva Peltoniemi
Cluster, Value Network and Business Ecosystem: Knowledge and Innovation Approach

Jason Potts
The Allocation of Complexity

C. Rose-Anderssen & P.M. Allen
Complex Activity Networks - A Dialogue between a Complex Systems Mathematical Model and a Cultural-Historical Activity Theoretical Approach - Practical Applications for Innovative Practices

Bridget Rosewell
Informing policy with new modelling strategies - examples from London

Catherine Truss & Jas Gill
Human Resource Management: A Complexity Perspective

Walter Van Dyck
Predictive Performance of Front-Loaded Experimentation Strategies in Pharmaceutical Discovery: A Bayesian Perspective

Sudhir Varadarajan
A Fundamental Principle to Rescue Innovation

Liz Varga
A case study of the 3 largest aerospace manufacturing organisations: an exploration of organisational strategy, innovation and evolution

Petra Wagner, Barbara Heller-Schuh & Karl-Heinz Leitner
Applying complexity principles to innovation processes in firms: a complex innovating systems (CIS) approach

Mei-ya Wang & Se-Hwa Wu
How Does Phalaenopsis Industry Form and Develop in Taiwan? Innovation Diffusion and Complexity Science Perspective

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