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allowed or encouraged (e.g., 3M allowing its researchers a budget for
their own ideas). As a result, we have kept the Emergence construct
focused the context and left systems with deliberate invention and
innovation and see them as agents in the context acting in their own
interests.

Diffusion: Emergence is the precursor of Diffusion, which is
concerned with the way emergent ideas spread through the context

Networks: Networked interactions underlie Emergence.

Nonlinearity: Emergence involves the past influencing the present
and the present influencing the future. This positive feedback process
provokes nonlinear cause and effect.

Self-organization: Emergence involves spontaneous interaction and
action. That is the very definition of self-organization.

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