Evolutionary dynamics of business networks

Business networks about in the current economic world but are surprisingly difficult to study. Ties between organisations occur in many ways and are ofen confidential or, at least, not made explicit. Thus we develop a minimalist model of network formation and study the evoluton of strategies of firms in obtaining maximum returns from a set of markets.

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