Understanding product innovation using Complex Systems Theory.

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Acknowledgements

List of original publications

Table of contents

Introduction

PART I FORMAL MODELS AND APPRECIATIVE THEORISING

Chapter 1 Understanding technological evolution

PART II INNOVATION IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Chapter 2 Complexity and decomposability in the NK-model

Chapter 3 A generalised model of product innovation in complex systems

Chapter 4 Patterns in product innovation over the product life-cycle

PART III EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 5 Entropy statistics as a framework to analyse technological evolution

Chapter 6 Variety and niche creation

Chapter 7 Scaling trajectories

Chapter 8 A complexity approach to innovation networks

PART IV CONCLUSION

Chapter 9 Summary, conclusions, and further research questions

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