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2 The 2D lattice of 'technologies' in our percolation model of innovation after 1,200 simulation steps. One region in the lattice around the best-practice frontier (BPF) is magnified. See 3 for details. Grey scale code: black = impossible, white = possible but not yet discovered; very dark grey = possible, but not reachable; lightest grey = discovered but not yet viable; medium-light grey = discovered and viable; medium-dark grey = discovered, viable, and on best-practice frontier (BPF). Medium-dark grey cells are the loci of R&D. The two horizontal lines show the "average" level of innovation (i.e. BPF) across all 'technologies' (columns). The dark line is the average (i.e. mean) BPF, while the dark grey line is the mean + standard deviation of the BPF.
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Institutions are the ‘rules of the game’ that give structure and meaning to social life. Institutional innovation is a long and complex social process, and is much less well understood than technological innovation. In this chapter, we explore how an engineering approach to the process of institutional innovation might influence the trajectory or r...
