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The gold-rush effect: how innovation speeds up
Alessandro Bellina, Gabriele Di Bona, Giordano De Marzo +1
Innovation records often exhibit "hockey-stick" patterns of abrupt, near-singular growth at the collective level. However, this macroscopic explosiveness stands in stark contrast t…
Economic Complexity in Mono-Partite Networks
Vito D. P. Servedio, Alessandro Bellina, Emanuele Calò +1
Initially designed to predict and explain the economic trajectories of countries, cities, and regions, economic complexity has been found applicable in diverse contexts such as eco…
The dynamics of higher-order novelties
Gabriele Di Bona, Alessandro Bellina, Giordano De Marzo +3
Studying how we explore the world in search of novelties is key to understand the mechanisms that can lead to new discoveries. Previous studies analyzed novelties in various explor…
Dynamical approach to Zipf's law
Giordano De Marzo, Andrea Gabrielli, Andrea Zaccaria +1
The rank-size plots of a large number of different physical and socio-economic systems are usually said to follow Zipf's law, but a unique framework for the comprehension of this u…