Andriani, Pierpaolo; Carignani, Giuseppe - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 9, pp. 1608-1620
Exaptation, the cooption of existing technologies for emergent functions, is an important but neglected mechanism for innovation. Exaptation may enable an existing technology to (a) construct a new technological niche, (b) enter into a preexisting niche, or (c) transform the internal...
