Between 1967 and 1974 the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, underwent a major transformation. Faced with a declining workload under the atomic energy programme, the laboratory has succeeded, not without difficulties, in defining and implementing a new mission to...

This paper begins with a brief review of Metcalfe's evolutionary economics as presented in the Graz Schumpeter Lectures and then moves onto Piaget's notion of and extension into what could be called cognitive phenocopy. Here, the main elements of Piaget's theories are introduced and related...