This book demonstrates that innovative ideas are systematically constructed in the creative space spanned by the dimensions of systems thinking and knowledge management. Readers will be introduced to this proposition in the final chapter, after learning about the key innovation theories, design...

Part 1. Governance as an interaction space -- Chapter 1. The hidden side of co-creation in a complex multi-stakeholder environment: when self-organization fails and emergence overtakes -- Chapter 2. Perspectives on hybridity -- Chapter 3. Bringing Society Back in: Actors, Networks, and Systems...

1. Macroeconomics as Systems Theory: Setting the Stage -- 2. Models of Social Order: Mechanical vs. Creative -- 3. Structures of Production and Properties of Social Order -- 4. Diachronic Action within an Ecology of Plans -- 5. Kaleidic Economies and Internally Generated Change -- 6. Entangled...