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THE CENTER OF GRAVITY FOR ENTREPRENEURS IN TEXAS

SFI Short Course: Exploring Complexity in Innovation & Invention

September 21, 2016 @ 8:00 am - September 23, 2016 @ 5:00 pm

Whether it’s the first red feather on a black wing or the emergence of a market economy, all “newness” has its start somewhere. The ability to innovate is, in fact, a defining feature of complex systems. In this intensive three-day course we will be exploring many core complex systems theories in Innovation and Invention. We will primarily focus on three systems to delve into the field of innovation and invention, namely, technology, biology, and social systems.

An important distinction made by social and biological scientists between invention and innovation. Invention is the creation of something new, while an innovation is a successful invention…a transformative sort of newness. Both are essential for evolutionary processes in technology, biology, and social systems, and both have long been of interest to SFI.

We believe that just as Darwin’s Theory describes evolutionary processes in biology, so too might a Theory of Innovation describe the emergence and survival of novelty across the technological, social, and biological domains. The origins of life and of multicellularity, the evolutionary dimensions of social and cultural change, the drivers of technological change, the transformation of knowledge systems, the development of complex societies, the role of energy in human development, and the formation of ecological and social networks are just a few of the themes that animate our research.

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Start:
September 21, 2016 @ 8:00 am
End:
September 23, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
Website:
http://santafe.edu/education/schools/short-course-complexity/2016-innovation-short-course-complexity/

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Capital Factory
701 Brazos
Austin, TX 78701 United States
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https://www.capitalfactory.com/
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