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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 8: Poster

SOE 8.18: Poster

Monday, March 16, 2015, 18:00–20:00, Poster E

Agent based model based on socio-physics and evolutionary economics to describe changes in technological regimes — •Florian Senger — Fraunhofer ISI, Breslauer Str. 48, 76139 Karlsruhe

The work presented here is part of an ongoing PhD thesis, where I combined methods from physics of social systems with methods from evolutionary economics to develop an agent-based model to mimic the dynamics of regime changes in socio-technical systems. I therefore modelled the demand side as consumer agents according to a distribution of endowments and needs, connected to each other in a social network, influencing each other in a voter-model-like manner and the supply side as explicit company agents consisting of genes in an evolutionary sense, producing a technology in a quality depending on their particular fitness, taking influence on particular areas of the consumer network via marketing and changing the alleles of their genes by a process of imitating and stochastically innovating, getting feedback on their fitness by the degree of success with the consumers. In this presentation I will show results for the phase behaviour of the system and how different properties of the network and the company agents yield different scenarios of metastable technological regimes and technological regime changes as observed in reality.