Role of design complexity in technology improvement.

We study a simple model for the evolution of the cost (or more generally the performance) of a technology or production process. The technology can be decomposed into n components, each of which interacts with a cluster of d - 1 other components. Innovation occurs through a series of trial-and-error...

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Main Authors: McNerney, J, Farmer, J, Redner, S, Trancik, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2011