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Heuristic engineering methods can provide essential support of management of informational complexity in early stages of innovation processes. This paper applies principles from system and model theory to the development of a meta-method, i.e. a method to support the definition of heuristic engineering methods. The resulting framework facilitates discursive procedure in method development and operative engineering activities respectively, and provides increased understanding of fundamental method mechanisms with regard to informational complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]