Organizational Invention in Renaissance Florence

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Organizational Invention in Renaissance Florence

• Puzzle Inventions in many domains with
  spillovers, but no intent to innovate (punct.
  equil.)
• Analytic focus multiple dynamic networks
• Massive archival data economic, political and
  kinship networks, for entire city over 200 years
• Triangulating methods and disciplines
  statistics, textual history, chemically inspired
  models of autocatalysis, agent-based simulation
  testing
• Findings Network mechanisms of invention
  transposition, refunctionality catalysis