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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