The Matthew effect describes the phenomenon that in societies, the rich tend to get richer
and the potent even more powerful. It is closely related to the concept of preferential …

Firms apply strategic foresight in technology and innovation management to detect
discontinuous changes early, to assess their expected consequences, and to develop a …

How do technologies develop? This study proposes the theory of technological parasitism
that is based on the idea that parasite-host relationships between technologies and …

How to measure the evolution of technology in order to predict innovations that grow
rapidly? This study suggests a new perspective based on the theory of technological …

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication
(communicative memory) and the physical recording of information (cultural memory). Here …

Complex systems are often characterized by large-scale hierarchical organizations. Whether
the prominent elements, at the top of the hierarchy, share and control resources or avoid one …

Invention has been commonly conceptualized as a search over a space of combinatorial
possibilities. Despite the existence of a rich literature, spanning a variety of disciplines …

Power grids exhibit patterns of reaction to outages similar to complex networks. Blackout
sequences follow power laws, as complex systems operating near a critical point. Here, the …

New concepts and ideas build on older ones. This path dependence in knowledge evolution
has promoted research to identify important knowledge elements, research trends, and …

This study here categorizes innovations considering the taxonomic characteristics of
interaction between technologies in complex systems. The proposed classification, in a …