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Author : Nigel Gilbert,Petra Ahrweiler,Andreas Pyka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662435083

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Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks by Nigel Gilbert,Petra Ahrweiler,Andreas Pyka Pdf

The competitiveness of firms, regions and countries greatly depends on the generation, dissemination and application of new knowledge. Modern innovation research is challenged by the need to incorporate knowledge generation and dissemination processes into the analysis so as to disentangle the complexity of these dynamic processes. With innovation, however, strong uncertainty, nonlinearities and actor heterogeneity become central factors that are at odds with traditional modeling techniques anchored in equilibrium and homogeneity. This text introduces SKIN (Simulation Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks), an agent-based simulation model that primarily focuses on joint knowledge creation and exchange of knowledge in innovation co‐operations and networks. In this context, knowledge is explicitly modeled and not approximated by, for instance, the level of accumulated R&D investment. The SKIN approach supports applications in different domains ranging from sector-based research activities in knowledge-intensive industries to the activities of international research consortia engaged in basic and applied research. Following a general description of the SKIN model, several applications and modifications are presented. Each chapter introduces in detail the structure of the model, the relevant methodological considerations and the analysis of simulation results, while options for empirically validating the models’ structure and outcomes are also discussed. The book considers the scope of further applications and outlines prospects for the development of joint modeling strategies.

Author : Petra Ahrweiler,Andreas Pyka,Nigel Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1155532931

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Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks (SKIN) by Petra Ahrweiler,Andreas Pyka,Nigel Gilbert Pdf

Author : Petra Ahrweiler,Nigel Gilbert,Andreas Pyka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443892391

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Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy by Petra Ahrweiler,Nigel Gilbert,Andreas Pyka Pdf

This book explores how complexity science and social simulation can be used to improve and inform policy-making in both research and innovation. Beginning with an introduction to conceptual definitions of complexity science and social simulation, the book demonstrates the validity of the underlying integrated research framework used throughout. It is then divided into two parts, with the first investigating the effects and impacts of policy making on the structure, composition and outputs of research and innovation networks using the agent-based SKIN platform (Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks, http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SKIN/). The second half of the book discusses a research initiative funded by the Irish government focusing on innovation policy simulation for economic recovery. This consists of empirical research on Irish research and innovation networks, and SKIN-based simulations of technology transfer issues and the commercialization of research in areas with high potential for innovation and economic growth. The book concludes with reflections on the maturity and utility of an approach combining complexity science and social simulation for research and innovation policy. Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy will be of particular interest to scientists concerned with innovation and complex systems, including economists, sociologists, and complexity researchers, as well as students and practitioners, such as innovation policymakers and innovation business managers.

Author : Petra Ahrweiler,G. Nigel Gilbert,Andreas Pyka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Social exchange
ISBN : 144388460X

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Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy by Petra Ahrweiler,G. Nigel Gilbert,Andreas Pyka Pdf

This book explores how complexity science and social simulation can be used to improve and inform policy-making in both research and innovation. Beginning with an introduction to conceptual definitions of complexity science and social simulation, the book demonstrates the validity of the underlying integrated research framework used throughout. It is then divided into two parts, with the first investigating the effects and impacts of policy making on the structure, composition and outputs of research and innovation networks using the agent-based SKIN platform (Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks, http: //cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SKIN/). The second half of the book discusses a research initiative funded by the Irish government focusing on innovation policy simulation for economic recovery. This consists of empirical research on Irish research and innovation networks, and SKIN-based simulations of technology transfer issues and the commercialization of research in areas with high potential for innovation and economic growth. The book concludes with reflections on the maturity and utility of an approach combining complexity science and social simulation for research and innovation policy. Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy will be of particular interest to scientists concerned with innovation and complex systems, including economists, sociologists, and complexity researchers, as well as students and practitioners, such as innovation policymakers and innovation business managers.

Author : Marijn Janssen,Maria A. Wimmer,Ameneh Deljoo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319127842

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Policy Practice and Digital Science by Marijn Janssen,Maria A. Wimmer,Ameneh Deljoo Pdf

The explosive growth in data, computational power, and social media creates new opportunities for innovating the processes and solutions of Information and communications technology (ICT) based policy-making and research. To take advantage of these developments in the digital world, new approaches, concepts, instruments and methods are needed to navigate the societal and computational complexity. This requires extensive interdisciplinary knowledge of public administration, policy analyses, information systems, complex systems and computer science. This book provides the foundation for this new interdisciplinary field, in which various traditional disciplines are blending. Both policy makers, executors and those in charge of policy implementations acknowledge that ICT is becoming more important and is changing the policy-making process, resulting in a next generation policy-making based on ICT support. Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0 point to the specific applications of social networks, semantically enriched and linked data, whereas policy-making has also to do with the use of the vast amount of data, predictions and forecasts, and improving the outcomes of policy-making, which is confronted with an increasing complexity and uncertainty of the outcomes. The field of policy-making is changing and driven by developments like open data, computational methods for processing data, opining mining, simulation and visualization of rich data sets, all combined with public engagement, social media and participatory tools.

Author : Petra Ahrweiler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136996764

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Innovation in Complex Social Systems by Petra Ahrweiler Pdf

Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists. Innovation in Complex Social Systems uses a "hard science" approach to examine innovation in a new way. Its contributors come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including social and natural sciences, computer science, and mathematics. Using cutting-edge methodology, they deal with the complex aspects of socio-economic innovation processes. Its approach opens up a new paradigm for innovation research, making innovation understandable and tractable using tools such as computational network analysis and agent-based simulation. This book of new work combines empirical analysis with a discussion of the tools and methods used to successfully investigate innovation from a range of international experts, and will be of interest to postgraduate students and scholars in economics, social science, innovation research and complexity science.

Author : Diane Payne,Johan A. Elkink,Nial Friel,Thomas U. Grund,Tamara Hochstrasser,Pablo Lucas,Adrian Ottewill
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030302986

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Social Simulation for a Digital Society by Diane Payne,Johan A. Elkink,Nial Friel,Thomas U. Grund,Tamara Hochstrasser,Pablo Lucas,Adrian Ottewill Pdf

“Social Simulation for a Digital Society” provides a cross-section of state-of-the-art research in social simulation and computational social science. With the availability of big data and faster computing power, the social sciences are undergoing a tremendous transformation. Research in computational social sciences has received considerable attention in the last few years, with advances in a wide range of methodologies and applications. Areas of application of computational methods range from the study of opinion and information dynamics in social networks, the formal modeling of resource use, the study of social conflict and cooperation to the development of cognitive models for social simulation and many more. This volume is based on the Social Simulation Conference of 2017 in Dublin and includes applications from across the social sciences, providing the reader with a demonstration of the highly versatile research in social simulation, with a particular focus on public policy relevance in a digital society. Chapters in the book include contributions to the methodology of simulation-based research, theoretical and philosophical considerations, as well as applied work. This book will appeal to students and researchers in the field.

Author : Andreas Pyka,Andrea Scharnhorst
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540922674

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Innovation Networks by Andreas Pyka,Andrea Scharnhorst Pdf

The science of graphs and networks is now an established tool for modeling and analyzing systems with a large number of interacting components. The contributions to this anthology address different aspects of the relationship between innovation and networks.

Author : Bogumił Kamiński,Grzegorz Koloch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642398292

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Advances in Social Simulation by Bogumił Kamiński,Grzegorz Koloch Pdf

This book is the conference proceedings of ESSA 2013, the 9th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association. ESSA conferences constitute annual events, which serve as an international platform for the exchange of ideas and discussion of cutting-edge research in the field of social simulations, both from the theoretical as well as applied perspective. This book consists of 33 articles, which are divided into four themes: Methods for the development of simulation models, Applications of agent-based modeling, Adaptive behavior, social interactions and global environmental change and using qualitative data to inform behavioral rules. We are convinced that this book will serve interested readers as a useful compendium which presents in a nutshell the most recent advances at the frontiers of social simulation research.

Author : Roberto Leombruni,Matteo Richiardi
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789812702258

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Industry and Labor Dynamics by Roberto Leombruni,Matteo Richiardi Pdf

This book presents the contributions to the first Wild@Ace conference. The acronym stands for OC Workshop on Industrial and Labor Dynamics OCo The Agent-Based Computational AproachOCO, and it has been the first event ever focusing on the very promising use of the agent-based simulation approach for investigation of labor economics and industrial organization issues. Agent-based models are computer models in which a multitude of agents OCo each embodied in a specific software code OCo interact. These agents can represent individuals households, firms, institutions, etc. Moreover, OC specialOCO agents can be added to observe and monitor individual and collective behavior. One of the main purpose of writing an ACE model is to gain intuitions on the two-way feedback between the microstructure and the macrostructure of a phenomenon of interest. How is it that simple aggregate regularities may arise from individual disorder? Or that a nice structure at an individual level may lead to a complete absence of regularity in the aggregate? How is it that the complex interaction of very simple individuals may lead to surprisingly complicated aggregate dynamics? Or that sophisticated agents may be unable to organize themselves in any interesting way?. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished researchers in the field, such as the economists Alan Kirman, Giovanni Dosi, Leigh Tesfatsion and Mauro Gallegati, and the sociologist Nigel Gilbert."

Author : Erik W. Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317566304

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Governance in the Information Era by Erik W. Johnston Pdf

Policy informatics is addressing governance challenges and their consequences, which span the seeming inability of governments to solve complex problems and the disaffection of people from their governments. Policy informatics seeks approaches that enable our governance systems to address increasingly complex challenges and to meet the rising expectations of people to be full participants in their communities. This book approaches these challenges by applying a combination of the latest American and European approaches in applying complex systems modeling, crowdsourcing, participatory platforms and citizen science to explore complex governance challenges in domains that include education, environment, and health.

Author : Jin Chen,Alexander Brem,Eric Viardot,Poh Kam Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351997072

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The Routledge Companion to Innovation Management by Jin Chen,Alexander Brem,Eric Viardot,Poh Kam Wong Pdf

Innovation contributes to corporate competitiveness, economic performance and environmental sustainability. In the Internet era, innovation intelligence is transferred across borders and languages at an unprecedented rate, yet the ability to benefit from it seems to become more divergent among different corporations and countries. How much an organization can benefit from innovation largely depends on how well innovation is managed in it. Thus, there is a discernible increase in interest in the study of innovation management. This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to this subject. The handbook introduces the basic framework of innovation and innovation management. It also presents innovation management from the perspectives of strategy, organization and resource, as well as institution and culture. The book’s comprehensive coverage on all areas of innovation management makes this a very useful reference for anyone interested in the subject.

Author : J Ramon Gil-Garcia,Theresa A. Pardo,Luis F. Luna-Reyes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319617626

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Policy Analytics, Modelling, and Informatics by J Ramon Gil-Garcia,Theresa A. Pardo,Luis F. Luna-Reyes Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive approach to the study of policy analytics, modelling and informatics. It includes theories and concepts for understanding tools and techniques used by governments seeking to improve decision making through the use of technology, data, modelling, and other analytics, and provides relevant case studies and practical recommendations. Governments around the world face policy issues that require strategies and solutions using new technologies, new access to data and new analytical tools and techniques such as computer simulation, geographic information systems, and social network analysis for the successful implementation of public policy and government programs. Chapters include cases, concepts, methodologies, theories, experiences, and practical recommendations on data analytics and modelling for public policy and practice, and addresses a diversity of data tools, applied to different policy stages in several contexts, and levels and branches of government. This book will be of interest of researchers, students, and practitioners in e-government, public policy, public administration, policy analytics and policy informatics.

Author : Stephanie Hintze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319113760

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Value Chain Marketing by Stephanie Hintze Pdf

​Value Chain Marketing (VCM) is a promising strategy to overcome immediate customers’ innovation resistance. By pursuing VCM, material suppliers enlarge their target group beyond their immediate customers and address their downstream customers as well. Treading on relatively unexplored grounds, this book explores the relevance of VCM and comprehends its process; identifies the critical factors for suppliers’ marketing success, and compares the performance of VCM trials, using a multi-method design linking case study research and computational modeling.

Author : Tom Gross,Jan Gulliksen,Paula Kotzé,Lars Oestreicher,Philippe Palanque,Raquel Oliveira Prates,Marco Winckler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642036583

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Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2009 by Tom Gross,Jan Gulliksen,Paula Kotzé,Lars Oestreicher,Philippe Palanque,Raquel Oliveira Prates,Marco Winckler Pdf

INTERACT 2009 was the 12th of a series of INTERACT international c- ferences supported by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. This year,INTERACT washeld in Uppsala (Sweden), organizedby the Swedish Interdisciplinary Interest Group for Human–Computer Interaction (STIMDI) in cooperation with the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University. Like its predecessors, INTERACT 2009 highlighted, both to the academic and to the industrial world, the importance of the human–computer interaction (HCI) area and its most recent breakthroughs on current applications. Both - perienced HCI researchers and professionals, as well as newcomers to the HCI ?eld, interested in designing or evaluating interactive software, developing new interaction technologies, or investigating overarching theories of HCI, found in INTERACT 2009 a great forum for communication with people of similar int- ests, to encourage collaboration and to learn. INTERACT 2009 had Research and Practice as its special theme. The r- son we selected this theme is that the research within the ?eld has drifted away from the practicalapplicability of its results and that the HCI practice has come to disregard the knowledge and development within the academic community.