Introduction Part 1: Building Blocks 1. The Variety of Innovation 2. Technical and Cultural Aspects of Innovation 3. Degrees of Radicalness of Innovation 4. Darwinian Selection at Different Levels Part 2: Making Innovation Succeed 5. What Constitutes Fitness in an Economic Environment 6. Mapping Selection Systems 7. Co-Evolution: From Description to Prescription 8. Innovation Routines 9. A Never Ending Dance Part 3: Bonus Track Creativity and the Economy—A Somewhat Uneasy Relationship
Biography
Dany Jacobs is Professor of Industrial Dynamics and Innovation Policy at the University of Amsterdam, as well as Professor of Art, Culture, and Economy at the Universities of Applied Science HAN and ArtEZ in Arnhem, the Netherlands. He is author of Mapping Strategic Diversity (2010).
‘This book provides us with thrilling ideas about how innovations emerge and survive. Dany Jacob’s discussion about culture and the evolution of innovations touches upon a topic that ought to be more discussed by anyone who wants’ to understand tomorrow’s knowledge economy.’ -- Bertil Rolandsson, University of Gothenberg, Sweden
