title: Innovation cascades: artefacts, organization and attributions.
abstract: Innovation cascades inextricably link the introduction of new artefacts, transformations in social organization, and the emergence of new functionalities and new needs. This paper describes a positive feedback dynamic, exaptive bootstrapping, through which these cascades proceed, and the characteristics of the relationships in which the new attributions that drive this dynamic are generated. It concludes by arguing that the exaptive bootstrapping dynamic is the principal driver of our current Innovation Society.
authors.affiliation: European Center for Living Technology, S. Marco 2940, 30124 Venice, Italy Department of Communications and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, viale Allegri 9, 42121 Reggio Emilia, Italy davidavra.lane@unimore.it.
authors.forename: David A
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4184-0471
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Lane
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016477:Artifacts; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D006801:Humans; D062069:Inventions; D012919:Social Behavior
keywords: Innovation Society; artefact innovation; attributions of functionality; exaptive bootstrapping; generative relationships