David A. Lane (born 1945) is an American

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, who developed the theory of artifact innovation. At the Santa Fe Institute he has been defining the notion of economic complexity and the Santa Fe approach. He is professor of economics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and research fellow at the

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. In 1987 he was elected as a

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Publications

Lane is co-author of the book ''Foresight, Complexity and Strategy''. Among his most cited papers is "Artificial worlds and economics, part II", published in the

Journal of Evolutionary Economics The International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society (ISS) is an economics association aimed at furthering research in the spirit of Joseph Schumpeter. Wolfgang F. Stolper and Horst Hanusch initiated the foundation of the society in 1986. The primary ...

, Volume 3, Number 3 / September, 1993 DOI 10.1007/BF01200867, and cited by 218 other works listed in Google Scholar.

References

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