Christopher Watts and Nigel Gilbert explore the generation, diffusion and impact of innovations that can now be studied using computer simulation models. Agent-based models, in particular, offer explanations for the phenomena of innovation that emerge from interactions among complex, adaptive and di[...]
Many of us accept as uncontroversial the belief that the world is comprised of detached and disparate products, all of which are reducible to certain substances. Of those things that are alive, we acknowledge that some have agency while others, such as humans, have more advanced qualities such as co[...]