Product invention as a complex adaptive system : an investigation of the impact of inventors' search heuristics on the rate of invention

Inventors face three key problems when attempting to uncover new product inventions: vast design spaces, interconnected product elements, and uncertainty as to the payoff to a proposed product design. In order to make vast design spaces tractable, inventors rely on search heuristics. The primary obj...

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Main Author: Brabazon, Anthony K.
Published: Kingston University 2005
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412602