Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation

Author : Caterina AM La Porta
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030457842
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation written by Caterina AM La Porta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of exaptation in diverse areas of life, with examples ranging from biology to economics, social sciences and architecture. The concept of exaptation, introduced in evolutionary biology by Gould and Vrba in 1982, describes the possibility that already existing traits can be exploited for new purposes throughout the evolutionary process. Edited by three active scholars in the fields of biology, physics and economics, the book presents an interdisciplinary collection of expert viewpoints illustrating the importance of exaptation for interpreting current reality in various fields of investigation. Using the lenses of exaptation, the contributing authors show how to view the overall macroscopic landscape as comprising many disciplines, all working in unity within a single complex system. This book is the first to discuss exaptation in both hard and soft disciplines and highlights the role of this concept in understanding the birth of innovation by identifying key elements and ideas. It also offers a comprehensive guide to the emerging interdisciplinary field of exaptation, provides didactic explanations of the basic concepts, and avoids excessive jargon and heavy formalism. Its target audience includes graduate students in physics, biology, mathematics, economics, psychology and architecture; it will also appeal to established researchers in the humanities who wish to explore or enter this new science-driven interdisciplinary field.

Author : Gino Cattani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192573969
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Developments in Evolutionary Innovation written by Gino Cattani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of evolutionary thinking has had a profound impact on economic theory and related fields such as strategy and technological innovation. An important paradigm that underlies the evolutionary theory of innovation is neo-Darwinian evolution. According to this paradigm, evolution is gradualist and based on the mechanisms of variation, selection, and retention. Since the 1970s, theoretical advancements in evolutionary biology have recognised the central role of punctuated equilibrium, speciation, and exaptation. However, despite their significant influence in evolutionary biology, these advancements have been reflected only partially in evolutionary approaches to economics, strategy, and innovation. The aim of this book is to review these advancements and explore their implications, with a particular emphasis on the role of serendipity and unprestateability in innovation and novelty creation.

Author : Shengnan Wang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 283254729X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Employee Experience, Occupational Health, and Organizational Supportive Factors: From an Integrated Perspective written by Shengnan Wang and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attracting, retaining, and motivating employees is one of the most important topics for organizations today. To build a competent, dedicated, and loyal team of employees, it is not enough to focus on compensation and benefits. Employees need to earn not only financial rewards but also the subjective experience when working in an organization. Employee experience is an important part of the overall compensation system, which usually includes recognition and appreciation, work-life balance, personal development, organizational culture, and work environment.

Author : Alessandro Melis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100385026X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architectural Exaptation written by Alessandro Melis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience. The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary studies on biology and architecture, which seem even more relevant in times of global environmental crises. This book aims to make a critique of the pre-existing and extensive paternalistic literature. Exaptation will be described as a functional shift of a structure that already had a prior, but different, function. In architecture, a functional shift of a structure that already had a function may apply to forms of decorative elements embedded in architectural components, and to both change of function of tectonic elements and the change of use of an architectural space. The book is illustrated with examples from around the globe, including China, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, the USA and the UK, and looks at different civilizations and diverse historical periods, ranging from the urban to the architectural scale. Such examples highlight the potential and latent human creative capacity to change the use and functions, something that cities and buildings could consider when facing disturbances. Exaptation is shown as an alternative narrative to the simplifications of evolutionary puritanism. It also offers an innovative perspective and presents an opportunity to re-think the manner in which we design and redesign our cities. This book will be of interest to architecture, planning, urban design and biology researchers and students.

Author : Elizabeth Barnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Innovation Through Narrative written by Elizabeth Barnett and published by . This book was released on 1999* with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zaheer Allam
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323986242
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resilient and Sustainable Cities written by Zaheer Allam and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of Cities in driving global economies has been well covered, and their impact on the larger ecosystem is well documented. Resilient and Sustainable Cities: Research, Policy and Practice explores how cities can be transformed into sustainable fabrics, while leading to positive socio-economic change. The topics include urban policy and covers the challenges cities experienced during the pandemic and resulting urban responses from federal, state, and local levels. This includes a transdisciplinary perspective dwelling on the city narrative, including Resources, Economics, Politics, and others. Resilient and Sustainable Cities serves as a valuable resource for leaders and practitioners working in Urban Policy and academia, as well as students in urban planning, architecture, and policy undergraduate and graduate level programs. Explores the impacts of COVID-19 on cities and its socio-economic impacts Provides regenerative avenues for cities in a post-pandemic context Introduces the concept of the "15-Minute City" Underlines urban regenerative avenues, including financing needs, for cities in the global south

Author : Telmo Pievani
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262548356
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperfection written by Telmo Pievani and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies. In the beginning, there was imperfection, which became the source of all things. Anomalies and asymmetries caused planets to take shape from the bubbling void and sent light into darkness. Life on earth is a catalog of accidents, alternatives, and errors that turned out to work quite well. In this book, Telmo Pievani shows that life on our planet has flourished and survived not because of its perfection but despite (and perhaps because of) its imperfection. He begins his story with the disruption-filled birth of the universe and proceeds through the random DNA copying errors that fuel evolution, the transformations of advantages into handicaps by natural selection, the anatomical and functional jumble that is the human brain, and our many bodily mismatches. Along the way, Pievani tells readers about the Irish elk (incidentally, neither Irish nor elk), whose enormous antlers serve to illustrate the first two laws of imperfection; the widespread dissemination of costly or useless traits; and the neuroimperfection of the human brain—“a frozen accident of evolution that was not designed from scratch,” as Pievani calls it. He sizes up the alleged perfection of the human body, asking, for example, if everything in our bodies serves a purpose, why do we have appendixes? Why bipedalism, with the inevitable back pain that results? In this fascinating account, Pievani offers the first comprehensive explanatory theory for the ubiquity of imperfection.

Author : Khalid Alnabhani
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128232269
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applications of Nuclear and Radioisotope Technology written by Khalid Alnabhani and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applications of Nuclear and Radioisotope Technology: For Peace and Sustainable Development presents the latest technology and research on nuclear energy with a practical focus on a variety of applications. Author Dr. Khalid Al-Nabhani provides a thorough and well-rounded view of the status of nuclear power generation in order to promote its benefits towards a sustainable, clean and secure future. This book offers innovative theoretical, analytical, methodological and technological approaches, encourages a positive societal and political uptake. This book enhances awareness of peaceful nuclear applications across a broad spectrum of industries, including power generation, agriculture, and medicine. It presents successful examples and lessons learned across many countries that are working towards their sustainability goals in cooperation with the IAEA and AAEA, to benefit researchers, professionals and decision-makers implementing and developing their own nuclear strategies for the future. Presents theoretical and scientific knowledge which is supported with real examples and successful experiences Provides prevailing perceptions of nuclear safety and security concerns by presenting the most advanced safety and security systems Applies technologies to a variety of applications to guide the reader to make informed decisions to help meet sustainability goals

Author : Aldrich Chan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324015985
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reassembling Models of Reality: Theory and Clinical Practice (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) written by Aldrich Chan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical musings on the nature of reality and “known experience.” Therapists must rely on their clients’ reporting of experience in order to assess, treat, and offer help. Yet we all experience the world through various filters of one sort or another, and our experiences are transformed through several nonconscious processes before reaching our conscious awareness. Science, philosophy, and wisdom traditions share the belief that our awareness is very restricted. How, then, can anyone accurately report their experience, let alone get help with it? Neuropsychologist Aldrich Chan examines how our experience of reality is assembled and shaped by biological, psychological, sociocultural, and existential processes. Each chapter explores processes within these domains that may act as “veils.” Topics in the book include: the default mode network, cognitive distortions, decision-making heuristics, the interconnected mind, memory, and cultural concepts of distress. By understanding the ways in which reality can be distorted, clinicians can more effectively help their clients reach their personal psychotherapeutic goals.

Author : Tiisetso Maloma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovate The Next written by Tiisetso Maloma and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovate the Next is the 7th book by author and entrepreneur Tiisetso Maloma.The core teaching of the book examines how one can become an innovator of novel products (physical and virtual) in any industrial revolution.It is targeted at entrepreneurs, employees and innovation enthusiasts.To understand and master a thing, one has to understand how it forms, unfolds and evolves.SECTION IChapter One takes us through evolutionary biology to form a foundation to understand the innovation of evolution (man-made and biological).After all, biology gave humans the brain with which they innovate.It looks at the factors pre-determining the success or failure of biological and man-made innovations. To achieve this, it borrows from the biological 'Adjacent Possible Theory' which was devised by the theoretical biologist, Stuart A. Kauffman.To illustrate this guide methodically, Tiisetso Maloma devised a set of factors entitled, 'Enabling factors for products success with the Adjacent Possible.'These factors are: (a) Behavioural Utility, (b) Innovation (Adjacent Possible stacking, or stacking for agility), (c) Location Specific Adjacent Possible Advantages, (d) Spaza/Convenience Metrical Interest/Advantage of a Product, (e) Business Model, and (f) Luck.Their function is to analyse, evaluate and strengthen any product innovation or idea.Chapter Two connects the success or failure of man-made innovations to evolutionary psychological inclinations by means of the Human Greed Pyramid, as devised by Tiisetso Maloma.The pyramid illustrates how product success is allowed and/or disallowed by human inclinations.It further shows how novelties are discovered and uncovered through the exploitation of human cognition and man-made innovations.The pyramid shows, from a human perspective, how the world is layered and how others creatively control or contribute to it.Chapter Three explores how inclinations can be plotted into innovations.Chapter Four reverse engineers the models illustrated in the book into skills one can hone to become an innovator of novel products. It draws scenarios for entrepreneurs, employees and innovation aspirants.SECTION IISection Two connects the models learned throughout the book to understand the current (Fourth) Industrial Revolution and its technologies: robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, biotechnology, the Internet of Things (IoT), decentralized consensus, 5G, 3D printing and autonomous vehicles.It sheds light on key innovation concepts such as Moore's Law, exaptation, and convergence.It is a Chapter on how to see into the future as an innovator.