This article introduces a special issue on evolutionary innovation and morphological novelty, two interrelated themes that have received a remarkable increase of attention over the past few years. We begin with a discussion of the question of whether innovation and novelty represent distinct evolutionary problems that require a distinct conceptualization. We argue that the mechanisms of innovat...

Derives from the National Innovation System (NIS) approach, and based on some prominent weakness in China’s National Innovation System (NIS), this paper argues that China’s National Innovation Platform (NIP) program places more emphasis on the infrastructure of innovation and can be seen as an early stage to form a completed innovation system, and aims at combining the efforts and resources of ...

This work at the Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics on the theoretical foundation and applications of projected clustering of high dimensional and big data has been supported by a number of programs and funding agencies including the Canada Research Chairs program, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (discovery grant, collaborative research development...

The 1990 US Clean Air Act Amendments instituted a national program in tradable sulphur dioxide (SO2) emission permits in the US electricity sector. This paper provides a survey and assessment of the SO2 program, with a focus on the role of innovation. Over the last decade the cost of compliance has fallen dramatically compared with most expectations and today the total cost of the program is 40...

The 1990 U.S. Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) instituted a national program in tradable sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission permits, referred to as “emission allowances,” in the U.S. electricity sector. This paper provides a survey and assessment of the SO2 allowance trading program with a focus on the role of innovation. Over the last decade the cost of compliance has fallen dramatically compared wi...