Pre-adaptation, exaptation and technology speciation: a comment on Cattani (2006)
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Dew, Nicholas
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2007-05-03
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A recent article in this journal by Cattani (2006) pointed out that some part of a
firm’s technological knowledge base may be accumulated without anticipation of
its subsequent uses but may later prove to have valuable applications. He called
this technological pre-adaptation. This comment suggests that pre-adaptation is a
confusing concept and offers an alternative term—exaptation—that might better
describe the process Cattani refers to.
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtl036
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Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)
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Industrial and Corporate Change, pp. 1–6, May 2007
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.