Emergence and complex systems

How simple local rules add up to behaviour nobody programmed directly: cross-domain research on emergent behaviour, plus a live lab where you can watch it happen.

Research sweeps

2026-05-15 · deep
Emergent Behaviour Across Disciplines
The science of emergent behaviour and self-organisation from 2015–May 2026, connecting reaction-diffusion and cellular-automata models to commercial markets, organisational behaviour and culture, ecology, biology, physics and chaos theory, including foundational algorithms and their cross-domain explanatory power.
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Explainers

Research Explainer · Leite & Audretsch (2026)
Firms don't fail from one big shock, they fail when invisible tensions quietly compound
A new framework argues organisations behave like complex adaptive systems, where small erosions in trust, ideology, or politics cascade into structural collapse. The authors test it against a 16th-century financier and Tesla.

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