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Influence

SFI's original mission was to disseminate the notion of a separate interdisciplinary research area, complexity theory referred to at SFI as "complexity science". Subsequent to the Institute's founding, a number of complexity institutes and departments were begun, including:

  • The CCS at Florida Atlantic University
  • The CCSR (Center for Complex Systems Research) at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
  • The CSCS at the University of Michigan
  • The CSC at UC Davis
  • The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University
  • The New England Complex Systems Institute
  • The Institute Para Limes, a European initiative based in the Netherlands in Europe.
  • The Centre for Research in Complex Systems (CRICS) at Charles Sturt University, Australia
  • The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems at Northwestern University

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