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Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies

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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)

  • Pablo Marquet
  • Robert Boyd
  • Andreas Wagner

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'.

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  • Michael Hochberg & Pablo Marquet & Robert Boyd & Andreas Wagner, 2017. "Innovation: an emerging focus from cells to societies," Post-Print hal-02006395, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02006395
    DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0414
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    Cited by:

    1. Shraddha Karve & Andreas Wagner, 2022. "Environmental complexity is more important than mutation in driving the evolution of latent novel traits in E. coli," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-12, December.
    2. Hunt, Richard A. & Lerner, Daniel A. & Ortiz-Hunt, Avery, 2022. "Lassie shrugged: The premise and importance of considering non-human entrepreneurial action," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 17(C).

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