Percolate or die: Multi-percolation decides the struggle between competing innovations

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2011-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/1101.0775v1

Physics

Physics and Society

28 pages, 7 figures

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Competition is one of the most fundamental phenomena in physics, biology and economics. Recent studies of the competition between innovations have highlighted the influence of switching costs and interaction networks, but the problem is still puzzling. We introduce a model that reveals a novel multi-percolation process, which governs the struggle of innovations trying to penetrate a market. We find that innovations thrive as long as they percolate in a population, and one becomes dominant when it is the only one that percolates. Besides offering a theoretical framework to understand the diffusion of competing innovations in social networks, our results are also relevant to model other problems such as opinion formation, political polarization, survival of languages and the spread of health behavior.

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