Search Results - subject:"co‐evolution"

Meeting common environmental challenges: the co-evolution of policies and practices

Underdal, Arild - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 13 (2013) 1, pp. 15-30

governance system. I propose the concept of co-evolution as the cornerstone of this platform and distinguish between two modes of … co-evolution: diffusion and cooperation. The article draws findings and propositions from recent literature to identify …

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Contagious cooperation, temptation, and ecosystem collapse

Richter, Andries; van Soest, Daan; Grasman, Johan - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 66 (2013) 1, pp. 141-158

Real world observations suggest that social norms of cooperation can be effective in overcoming social dilemmas such as the joint management of a common pool resource—but also that they can be subject to slow erosion and sudden collapse. We show that these patterns of erosion and collapse...

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Incorporating social context and co-evolution in an innovation diffusion model—with an application to cleaner vehicles

Dijk, Marc; Kemp, René; Valkering, Pieter - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 2, pp. 295-329

Existing diffusion models have proven less suitable for the analysis of environmental innovations, such as hybrid vehicles, which emerge in a context of changing social appraisal and regulatory support. In this paper, we offer an agent-based analysis of innovation diffusion which is better...

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The co-evolution of innovation, demand and growth

Saviotti, Pier Paolo; Pyka, Andreas - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2013

In order to explain long-run economic development, we analyse in this paper the interplay between supply-side and demand-side processes. On the supply side, three different innovation processes are observed and interact: (i) growing productive efficiency, (ii) the emergence of new sectors and...

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A survey and review of approaches to study transitions

Lachman, Daniël A. - In: Energy Policy 58 (2013) C, pp. 269-276

With the aim to achieve a sustainable future, the field of transition studies has recently received increasing attention. Transition thinking and transition management have even been provided with a prominent spot in strategies and policies of a growing number of countries. However, though...

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New Silicon Valleys or a new species? Commoditization of knowledge work and the rise of knowledge services clusters

Manning, Stephan - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 2, pp. 379-390

This paper explores knowledge services clusters (KSCs) as a distinct and increasingly important form of geographic cluster, in particular in developing countries: KSCs are defined as geographic concentrations of lower-cost skills serving global demand for increasingly commoditized knowledge...

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A naturalistic theory of economic organization

Stoelhorst, J.W.; Richerson, Peter J. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90 (2013) S, pp. 45-45

We develop a theory of economic organization grounded in the naturalistic paradigm currently emerging at the intersection of biology and the behavioral and social sciences. The crux of this approach is the recognition that an understanding of the evolutionary origins of human organizational...

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The development of an integrated model for assessing sustainability of complex systems

Gamage, Gayathri Babarenda; Boyle, Carol; McDowall, Ron - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 16 (2013) 3/4, pp. 297-309

components, a system's ability to learn and remember, emergence of novel behaviours, co-evolution, etc. This paper presents the …

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Two-stage based ensemble optimization framework for large-scale global optimization

Wang, Yu; Huang, Jin; Dong, Wei Shan; Yan, Jun Chi; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 228 (2013) 2, pp. 308-320

Large-scale global optimization (LSGO) is a very important and challenging task in optimization domain, which is embedded in many scientific and engineering applications. In order to strengthen both effectiveness and efficiency of LSGO algorithm, this paper designs a two-stage based ensemble...

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Unravelling the role of innovation platforms in supporting co-evolution of innovation: Contributions and tensions in a smallholder dairy development programme

Kilelu, Catherine W.; Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees - In: Agricultural Systems 118 (2013) C, pp. 65-77

shape co-evolution of innovation processes. This paper addresses this gap and conceptualizes platforms as intermediaries … that connect the different actors in innovation systems in order to foster effective co-evolution. We present a case study … indicate that co-evolution of innovation is a highly dynamic process with various interactional tensions and unexpected effects …

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