We model the production of complex goods in a large supply network. Each firmsources several essential inputs through relationships with other firms. Due to the risk of suchsupply relationships being idiosyncratically disrupted, firms multisource inputs and strategicallyinvest to make...

Traditionally evolution is seen as a process where from a pool of possible variations of a population (e.g. biological species or industrial goods) a few variations get selected which survive and proliferate, whereas the others vanish. Survival probabilities and proliferation rates are...