On Singularities and Black Holes in Combination-Driven Models of Technological Innovation Networks.

It has been suggested that innovations occur mainly by combination: the more inventions accumulate, the higher the probability that new inventions are obtained from previous designs. Additionally, it has been conjectured that the combinatorial nature of innovations naturally leads to a singularity:...

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Main Authors: Ricard Solé, Daniel R Amor, Sergi Valverde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4731471?pdf=render