A complexity approach to co-creating an innovative environment

World Futures: Journal of General Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 223-239

  Mitleton Kelly, Eve ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co evolution; complex evolving systems; connectivity; creation of new order; creativity; culture; emergence; exploration of the space of possibility; far from equilibrium; feedback; innovation; interdependence; next adjacent; self organization.

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449118662     PISSN: 02604027     EISSN: 15561844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02604020500509553     Document Type: Article

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