Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem

Reviewers, especially the reviewer that provided a remarkable 15, single spaced pages of superb commentary. We particularly wish to thank Mark Newman for his advice and help in developing and interpreting the bipartite-affiliation network statistics. We also wish to give very special thanks to the Santa Fe Institute for creating a rich collaborative environment wherein these ideas first emerged and to John Padgett, the organizer of the States and Markets group at the Santa Fe