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Self-organization of R&D Search in Complex Technology Spaces

The authors extend an earlier model of innovation dynamics based on invasive percolation by adding endogenous R&D search by economically motivated firms. They find that as the mean and standard deviation of the log-normal distribution are varied, the relative rates of aggregate innovation switches between the two regimes.