A version of this article appeared in the March 2006 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Connecting Maverick Minds
The Santa Fe Institute is both a rare bird and an odd duck: a research community without formal programs or departments, whose itinerant faculty of scientists and researchers engage in collaborative and wildly multidisciplinary work at the frontiers of neuroscience, network dynamics, complexity theory, and other fields. Though SFI research is open-ended and, by design, […]
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Geoffrey West, president of the Santa Fe Institute, a unique research community that innovates by mixing disciplines, talks about why free thinking matters.
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