Dynamics on expanding spaces: modeling the emergence of novelties Vittorio Loreto, Vito D. P. Servedio, Steven H. Strogatz and Francesca Tria arXiv:1701.00994v1 [physics.soc-ph] 4 Jan 2017 Abstract Novelties are part of our daily lives. We constantly adopt...
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Dynamics on expanding spaces: modeling the emergence of novelties Vittorio Loreto, Vito D. P. Servedio, Steven H. Strogatz and Francesca Tria arXiv:1701.00994v1 [physics.soc-ph] 4 Jan 2017 Abstract Novelties are part of our daily lives. We constantly adopt new technolo- gies, conceive new ideas, meet new people, experiment with new situations. Oc- casionally, we as individuals, in a complicated cognitive and sometimes fortuitous process, come up with something that is not only new to us, but to our entire society so that what is a personal novelty can turn into an innovation at a global level. Inno- vations occur throughout social, biological and technological systems and, though we perceive them as a very natural ingredient of our human experience, little is known about the processes determining their emergence. Still the statistical occur- rence of innovations shows striking regularities that represent a starting point to get a deeper insight in the whole phenomenology. This paper re
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