papers included range from simulation models of the evolution of market structure in the presence of innovation, through … historical investigations of knowledge networks and empirical analysis of contemporary networks, to the analysis of the diffusion … of innovations using simulation and analytic models and of the diffusion of knowledge using patent data …

in the knowledge economy and society / Elias G. Carayannis -- 6. Towards a communicative theory of diverse innovation … knowledge systems. The authors address the concept of heterogeneity in a multi-disciplinary fashion, including perspectives from … evolutionary economics and innovation system studies, and relate this approach to existing theories in a broad range of fields …