Society as a learning system: Discovery, invention, and innovation cycles revisited

• Published in: Technological forecasting & social change Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 267 - 282
• Main Author: Marchetti, Cesare
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.12.1980
• Subjects: Discovery/Discoveries; Innovation/Innovations/Innovative/ Innovativeness/ Innovator/ Innovators; Invention/Inventions/Inventive; Learning/Learned; Society/Societies

The very simple heuristic suggestion that society as a whole and its numerous subsets operate like learning systems, basically governed by Volterra-Lotka equations, has been extremely valuable in organizing a most variegated collection of statistical sets of time series, ranging from the structure o...