Scale-free power-laws as interaction between progress and diffusion

Complexity

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 56-65

  Hilbert, Martin ^a,b  

^a División de Desarrollo Sostenible y Asentamientos Humanos de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBÁÑEZ   (Chile)

Author keywords

Diffusion of innovations; Pareto; Power law; Technological change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897657696     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.21485     Document Type: Article

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