Does serendipity challenge the idea of free will? Can serendipity be a catalyst for change?

The current study explores this issue using a matched-pair sample of 168 serendipitous and non-serendipitous inventions used by entrepreneurs to raise capital ... Keywords: Information encountering, serendipity, passive information acquisition, information behavior, information seeking, models. 1. Introduction. The ... Oct 14, 2016 ... aspects of its informational and spatial design? What can we ... Serendipity and information seeking: An empirical study. Journal of. Jun 7, 2012 ... Research that isn't tied to specific goals can lead to unanticipated discoveries in other areas. They argue that just as their unrestricted pursuit of ... The term serendipity is used in case study methodology to describe chance observations by astute observers that lead to new knowledge. ... informational entropy-based notion of value, grounded in Granular ... In A New Theory of Serendipity: Nature, Emergence and Mechanism, De Gruyter. pp ... ... Serendipity. This is a situation in which various pieces come together to ... Informational interviews - whether informal chats with new or established ... The influence of serendipity on users' flow experience is another topic of this study. Through the above two research topics, we propose another content ... Although the study of serendipity is still an emerging research discipline, several studies in information research have explored how serendipity happens, and. In essence, serendipity is a type of information-processing capacity for the human mind that promotes changes in perception and action, stemming from (and ...