Tria, F. (2016) The dynamics of innovation through the expansion in the adjacent possible. Il nuovo cimento C, 39 (2). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1826-9885
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Abstract
The experience of something new is part of our daily life. At different scales, innovation is also a crucial feature of many biological, technological and social systems. Recently, large databases witnessing human activities allowed the observation that novelties —such as the individual process of listening a song for the first time— and innovation processes —such as the fixation of new genes in a population of bacteria— share striking statistical regularities. We here indicate the expansion into the adjacent possible as a very general and powerful mechanism able to explain such regularities. Further, we will identify statistical signatures of the presence of the expansion into the adjacent possible in the analyzed datasets, and we will show that our modeling scheme is able to predict remarkably well these observations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2020 15:54 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Sep 2020 15:54 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/19277 |
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