New Developments in Evolutionary Innovation Novelty Creation in a Serendipitous Economy

Gino Cattani, Professor of Strategy and Organization Theory, New York University,Mariano Mastrogiorgio, Assistant Professor of Management, at IE Business School

Gino Cattani is Professor of Strategy and Organization Theory at the Stern School of Business, Department of Management and Organizations, New York University. His research spans different areas of investigation, with a particular focus on how firms sustain their competitive advantage in regimes of technological change and the role of preadapted capabilities. He also studies audience-mediated legitimation processes that are involved in the recognition and acceptance of novelty. He has served as Deputy Senior Editor of Organization Science, and he is currently serving as associate editor of Management Science and Industrial and Corporate Change. He is also Chief Editor of Advances in Strategic Management.

Mariano Mastrorgiorgio is assistant professor of management at IE Business School, Department of Strategy, where he teaches Introduction to Management and Strategic Management in the undergraduate programmes. His research lies at the intersection of evolutionary theory of innovation, behavioural strategy, and complexity economics. His work has been published in Organization Science, Industrial and Corporate Change and Research Policy.

Foreword, Richard Nelson
Foreword, Franco Malerba
1. New Developments in Evolutionary Innovation: An Introduction, Gino Cattani and Mariano Mastrogiorgio
2. New Frontiers: Punctuated Equilibrium, Speciation and Exaptation in Innovation, Gino Cattani and Mariano Mastrogiorgio
3. On the Origins of the Airframe Revolution: Managing Exaptive Radical Innovation, Giuseppe Carignani
4. A Nonpredictive View: Evolution, Unprestateability, Disequilibrium, Gino Cattani and Mariano Mastrogiorgio
5. New Evolutionary Theory Via Simulation: NK Landscapes and Beyond, Gino Cattani and Mariano Mastrogiorgio
6. From Trees to Networks: Technological Evolution From the Complexity Angle, Gino Cattani and Mariano Mastrogiorgio
7. The Search Function and Evolutionary Novelty, Teppo Felin and Stuart Kauffman
8. Extended Cognition and the Innovation Process, Antonio Mastrogiorgio, Enrico Petracca, and Riccardo Palumbo
9. Organising for Unprestateability: An Option-Based Approach, Gino Cattani and Mariano Mastrogiorgio
10. The Cultural Evolution of Creative Ideas and Social Innovations: A Complex Systems Approach, Michael Unrau and Liane Gabora
Conclusions, Gino Cattani and Mariano Mastrogiorgio