Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies

Michael Hochberg (), Pablo Marquet, Robert Boyd and Andreas Wagner ()
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Michael Hochberg: UMR ISEM - Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - EPHE - École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - UM - Université de Montpellier - Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Innovations are generally unexpected, often spectacular changes in phenotypes and ecological functions. The contributions to this theme issue are the latest conceptual, theoretical and experimental developments, addressing how ecology, environment, ontogeny and evolution are central to understanding the complexity of the processes underlying innovations. Here, we set the stage by introducing and defining key terms relating to innovation and discuss their relevance to biological, cultural and technological change. Discovering how the generation and transmission of novel biological information, environmental interactions and selective evolutionary processes contribute to innovation as an ecosystem will shed light on how the dominant features across life come to be, generalize to social, cultural and technological evolution, and have applications in the health sciences and sustainability.This article is part of the theme issue 'Process and pattern in innovations from cells to societies'.

Keywords: culture; information; innovation ecosystem; network; niche; novelty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-10-23
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Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017, 372 (1735), pp.20160414. ⟨10.1098/rstb.2016.0414⟩

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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0414

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