Following EU’s Lisbon strategy development of knowledge-based economy has become one of the headline objectives for the government of Latvia. In this paper we conceptualize driving forces and responses of government’s commitment towards this objective. We investigate feedback loops that underlie dynamics of knowledge industry development. Increase in domestic Research and Development (R&D) acti...

vision and then adopted after an extensive design process. OISD may serve to be a more powerful model of change in that it capitalizes on powerful system concepts such as positive feedback and key leverage points, while still retaining a pragmatic orientation. The six phases of OISD are described below. The phases are loose and overlapping; they naturally would probably occur in sequential orde...

Notwithstanding the usefulness of system dynamics in analyzing complex policy problems, policy design is far from straightforward and in many instances trialand-error driven. To address this challenge, we propose to combine system dynamics with network controllability, an emerging field in network science, to facilitate the detection of effective leverage points in system dynamics models and th...

For many natural systems there is an advantage in their simulating on a computer. In this article, a way how to determine the influence of the predator-prey simulation’s parameters on the model’s behaviour based on the leverage points is examined. An investigation whether it is possible to sort the parameters according to the importance and if it is possible to automate the process to a certain...

The presence of clusters in a data set is sometimes due to the existence of certain relations among the measured variables which vary depending on some hidden factors. In these cases, observations could be grouped in a natural way around linear and nonlinear structures and, thus, the problem of doing robust clustering around linear affine subspaces has recently been tackled through the minimiza...

1 Dario Nardi, University of California Los Angeles, Program in Computing, Math Sciences 6363, Los Angeles, CA 90095 [email protected] Abstract—Systems concepts like non-linearity and feedback are relevant in many fields, but interactive software to demonstrate these concepts are uncommon. Three mini-applications are discussed. These applications are relatively simple in programming and desi...

New Zealand has a poor rate of immunisation in comparison to other OECD countries. Immunisation is a major public health issue as it is one of the most cost-effective health interventions. However, high immunisation rates are required to realise the full benefit of immunisation programmes. In this paper we use Systems Thinking to identify principal dynamics that underlie immunisation system and...

A successful knowledge management strategy identifies a firm’s key leverage points essential to achieve business results. These often reside in core business processes that may be re-engineered to capitalize on and expand organizational knowledge resources and capabilities. This case describes a 4-year initiative undertaken by IBM to re-engineer its customer relationship management process and ...

Integrated supply chains are one of the most powerful competitive tools in today's globalizing business economy. For agricultural products, successful supply chain development projects reduce not only the transaction costs but also the institutional barriers that decouple individual links in traditional distribution channels. They allow participants to achieve higher levels of service and to ca...