Frontiers of Evolutionary Economics

Foster, John; Metcalfe, J. Stanley

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“…Or in different terms, evolution cannot be reduced to a two-stage process of selection and inheritance unless all the variation we need is present at the beginning when the world is created. A third stage of processes is needed to replenish variety lost (Foster and Metcalfe 2001). For this reason, social as well as biological systems of potentially unlimited evolution are likely to involve replication processes (Maynard Smith and Szathmáry 1999).…”

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General selection theory and economic evolution: The Price equation and the replicator/interactor distinction

Knudsen¹

2004

Journal of Economic Methodology

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The purpose of the present article is to strengthen the conceptualisation of the principle of selection in theories of economic evolution and to help clarify a number of unsettled issues regarding the meaning of variety and continuity. In order to achieve this, the emerging general mathematical selection theory is introduced to identify the requirements of a general principle of selection and the specification of variety and continuity that follows from it. It is indicated how general selection theory can help advance evolutionary theories of economic change by clarifying the meaning of selection, and the possible role of habits and routines in economic selection.economic evolution, general selection theory, replicator/interactor, routine/social role,

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General selection theory and economic evolution: The Price equation and the replicator/interactor distinction

Knudsen¹

2004

Journal of Economic Methodology

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“…Industrial dynamics is driven through innovation in large companies and through entrepreneurship through new companies (Schumpeter 1934, 1942). Recent literature has both examined to what extent that Schumpeter was evolutionary and dynamic in his theorizing, as well as strived to define principles for evolutionary economics (Andersen 2011; Witt 2010; McKelvey and Holmén 2006; Foster and Metcalfe 2001). Metcalfe (2002 and 2008) argues that the restless nature of capitalism has to do with knowledge as the pre-eminent source of variation, but that there is a difference between knowledge and information which helps explain why heterogeneity of firms also matters.…”

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Firms navigating through innovation spaces: a conceptualization of how firms search and perceive technological, market and productive opportunities globally

McKelvey

2016

J Evol Econ

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The main contribution of this paper is a theory-based conceptual framework of innovation spaces, and how firms must navigate through them to innovate. The concept of innovation systems - at the regional, sectoral and national levels - have been highly influential. Previous literature developing the concept of innovation systems has stressed the importance of institutions, networks and knowledge bases at the regional, sectoral and national levels. This paper primarily draws upon an evolutionary and Schumpeterian economics perspective, in the following three senses. The conceptualization of 'innnovation spaces' focuses upon how and why firm search for innovations is influenced the opportunities within certain geographical contexts. This means that the firm create opportunities and can span different context, but they are influence by the context in term of the access, flow and co-evolution of ideas, resources, technology, people and knowledge, which help stimulate business innovation in terms of products, process and services. The paper concludes with an agenda for future research and especially the need to focus on globalization as a process of intensifying linkages across the globe.

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“…In these codes, the major economic sectors were agriculture, manufacturing, and services. At that time, services was a residual category for other activities that did not fit into agriculture or manufacturing [4]. Today, stretched beyond the point of being meaningful, that residual is the bulk of economic activity, and by far the fastest growing part of economic activity in the U.S.…”

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“…Importantly, the U.S. government has accepted this definition as the basis for defining service products in the new North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) [6]. Other definitions of services can be found that emphasize an exchange between two or more parties and a transformation (potentially intangible) received by a customer [4][7] [8].…”

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Implementing a Request Fulfillment Process

Mendes¹,

Silva²

2011

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Request Fulfillment, as the name implies, deals with service requests, defining the roles and activities needed to deliver services. Typically, this process delivers the goods and services that customers request through the service catalogue. Although the Request Fulfillment process is perfectly described in the ITIL books, these do not explain how to implement this process. In this research we propose some solutions to mitigate the risks of a Request Fulfillment process implementation. The proposed solutions include a service request definition, its components, the roles involved in its management, a lifecycle process and their relations with others concepts. The proposal was implemented in two private companies, including a software factory that provides services to several clients. In order to evaluate the solution effectiveness, we monitored 8 metrics proposed by the ITIL framework.

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Frontiers of Evolutionary Economics

Cited by 106 publications

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General selection theory and economic evolution: The Price equation and the replicator/interactor distinction

General selection theory and economic evolution: The Price equation and the replicator/interactor distinction

Firms navigating through innovation spaces: a conceptualization of how firms search and perceive technological, market and productive opportunities globally

Implementing a Request Fulfillment Process

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