Journal
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 372, Issue 1735, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0414
Keywords
culture; information; innovation ecosystem; network; niche; novelty
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Funding
- James S. McDonnell Foundation [220020294]
- CNRS PICS [06313]
- Agence National de la Recherche [ANR-13-BSV7-0003-01]
- Institut National du Cancer [2014-1-PL-BIO-12-IGR-1]
- Programa de Investigacion Asociativa (PIA) [Anillo SOC1405, ICM-MINECON P05-001, PFB-CONICYT P-053]
- John Templeton Foundation [48952]
- ERC [739874]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [31003A_146137]
- EpiphysX RTD grant from SystemsX.ch
- University Priority Research Program in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich
- European Research Council (ERC) [739874] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-13-BSV7-0003] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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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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