Innovation-facilitating networks create inequality.

ABSTRACT: Theories of innovation often balance contrasting views that either smart people create smart things or smartly constructed institutions create smart things. While population models have shown factors including population size, connectivity and agent behaviour as crucial for innovation, few have taken the individual-central approach seriously by examining the role individuals play within their groups. To explore how network structures influence not only population-level innovation but also performance among individuals, we studied an agent-based model of the Potions Task, a paradigm developed to test how structure affects a group's ability to solve a difficult exploration task. We explore how size, connectivity and rates of information sharing in a network influence innovation and how these

SUBMITTER: Moser C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10688440 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature