Overview
- First book discussing exaptation in hard and soft disciplines
- Helps to understand the birth of innovation, identifying key ingredients and ideas
- Highlights the main strategies that can help envision future developments in a new perspective
- Serves as an exhaustive monograph while avoiding excessive jargon and recourse to heavy formalism
Part of the book series: The Frontiers Collection (FRONTCOLL)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Luciano Pilotti is professor of Strategic Management and Marketing at the University of Milan’s Department of Environmental Science and Policy and a former professor at the Faculty of Statistics, University of Padua. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management Sciences from the University of Venice in 1987, conducted research on Strategic Management and Marketing at Bocconi University of Milan (1984–1997), and served as a Visiting Professor at Durham Business School, UK (2008–2013). He has published numerous books and articles on the topic of innovationin international journals for the general public, and has organized two international workshops on exaptation (2009 and 2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation
Editors: Caterina AM La Porta, Stefano Zapperi, Luciano Pilotti
Series Title: The Frontiers Collection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45784-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45783-9Published: 10 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45786-0Published: 10 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45784-6Published: 09 July 2020
Series ISSN: 1612-3018
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 194
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complex Systems, Systems Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Cancer Research, Urbanism