Time to rack those brains.

The meeting with Leif last Friday was extremely fruitful, and we appreciated the insightful comments he has appended into our thesis draft as it stood. And so since then, Alliz and I have been working hard to incorporate all that we've worked on into one draft -

And as of today, the thesis stands at 100 pages.

Which I think may be a bit much for the reader to sift through. With only 15 days left before the thesis submission, I'm feeling the crunch because it feels like there is still much to be done, with a key part left - Conceptualising and summarising our key findings from all the information we've garnered and processed, into something original and useful and of real contribution to the field.

It does feel that we are almost there, but now it's really an application of the mind. And it is timely that Leif has strongly encouraged us to look into Jay Forrester's World Dynamics, which speaks of translating mental models into computer models, which can better capture the effects of all assumptions on the variables in question in a systematic and logical way.

We are reading the book now, and will be meeting tomorrow to work through what our key findings are, as well as our own proposed systems dynamic model based on the innovation system models that we are analysing.

As for the sheer bulk of pages - perhaps we can append more? Leif proposes a guideline of having the main report be 60+ pages... which is looking to be approximately half of our report if including the final conclusion section.

Looking for inspiration now more than ever!