Scientific Creativity as a Combinatorial Process: The Chance Baseline

Knowledge and Space

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 39-51

  Simonton, Dean Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial Model; Combinatorial Process; Ideational Combination; Multiple Discovery; Sociological Publication

Indexed keywords

EID: 85160786183     PISSN: 18779220     EISSN: 25430580     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9877-2_4     Document Type: Chapter

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