Overview: Includes supplementary material: .The science of graphs and networks has become by now a well-established tool for modelling and analyzing a variety of systems with a large number of interacting components. Starting from the physical sciences, applications have spread rapidly to the natural and social sciences, as well as to economics, and are now further extended, in this volume, to the concept of innovations, viewed broadly. ..In an abstract, systems-theoretical approach, innovation can be understood as a critical event which destabilizes the current state of the system, and result
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