Author: Petra Ahrweiler

Petra Ahrweiler is Professor of Sociology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany, and the Director of the EA European Academy of Technology and Innovation Assessment, a publicly funded research organisation in Rhineland-Palatinate. Her publications include Innovation in Complex Social Systems (2010); “A New Model for University-Industry Links in Knowledge-Based Economies” in Journal of Product Innovation Management; and “In Search of a Network Theory of Innovations: Relations, Positions, and Perspectives” in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.Nigel Gilbert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, and Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation. His publications include Agent-based Models (2008); Computational Social Science (2010); and Simulating Innovation: Computer-based Tools for Rethinking Innovation (2014). Andreas Pyka is Professor and Chair in Innovation Economics at the Economics Institute at the University of Hohenheim. His publications include “Innovation Networks in Economics – From the incentive-based to the knowledge-based Approaches” in the European Journal of Innovation Management (2002), “Learning-by-modelling: Insights from an Agent-Based Model of University – Industry Relationships” in Cybernetics and Systems (2015) and “Avoiding evolutionary inefficiencies in innovation networks” in Prometheus (2015).