Conference: Innovation as Search on a Space of Possibilities

提议的研讨会将汇集在理论上和经验上对创新概念有贡献的研究人员，作为对组合可能性的探索。从各种学科（生物学、经济学、工程学、管理学、考古学、人类学、物理学、数学）中，学者们认真地研究了人类社会和组织中创新的起源和动态，跨越了时间和规模（从城市到公司到国家经济），这些都是由复杂性科学提供的信息。以及是否可以建立一个对政策有用的创新搜索的一般和正式框架。

The proposed workshop will bring together researchers who have contributed both theoretically and empirically to the concept of innovation as a search of combinatorial possibilities. From a variety of disciplines (biology, economics, engineering, management science, archaeology, anthropology, physics, mathematics) scholars have seriously engaged with the origins and dynamics of innovation in human societies and organizations, across time and across scale (from cities to firms to national economies) informed by complexity science The objective is to assess how useful the concept has been, and whether a general and formal framework of innovation as search can be built that would be useful to policy.