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Major Actors in the Innovation Diffusion Process

In: Knowledge, Complexity and Innovation Systems

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  • Michael Sonis

    (Bar-Ilan University)

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This chapter provides an explanation of the quintessential role of innovation diffusion as a part of the process of complication, i.e. the deepening of complexity in evolving complex systems. The main feature of the evolution of a complex system is the emergence of new properties which did not exist previously and which add new information to the system. Here we should stress the difference between invention and innovation. While invention involves the appearance of new information, innovation implies the spread of information [new or old] within the system. Innovation diffusion is the mechanism of complication, i.e. of evolution of complexity. The evolution of complexity [complication] of the physical universe included in the past at least three quintessential events: the Big Bang, which flooded the universe with radiation and, a billion years later, the darkening of the fiirmament, because of the appearance of atoms and the creation of stars, black holes and galaxies. Since then the rate of complication of the physical universe has become very low, while the complication of biological, ecological and especially social reality has continued at an accelerated rate.

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  • Michael Sonis, 2001. "Major Actors in the Innovation Diffusion Process," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Manfred M. Fischer & Josef Fröhlich (ed.), Knowledge, Complexity and Innovation Systems, chapter 16, pages 317-341, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-662-04546-6_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-04546-6_16
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    1. Sonis, Michael, 2002. "Complexity and complication in dynamics of linear spatial socio-economies, a synopsis," ERSA conference papers ersa02p044, European Regional Science Association.

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