{"id":517,"date":"2015-07-28T18:26:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T23:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2023-01-29T21:54:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T03:54:26","slug":"innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"innovation &#8211; a new definition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">innovation [noun] &#8211; context violating exaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever since I read this tweet in 2012 by Fast Company, I have redefined innovation in this way.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Innovation thrives on context violations and exaptation&quot;: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/cQDhEKMW\">http:\/\/t.co\/cQDhEKMW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fast Company (@FastCompany) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FastCompany\/status\/252932931520192512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the first definition of exaptation from Dictionary.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>noun, Biology<br>\n1. a process in which a feature acquires a function that was not acquired through natural selection.<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By taking something or a combination of things and applying it to a purpose to which it was not intended (violating its original context), one may discover that it is well-suited to perform a different function. This discovery becomes an innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>innovation [noun] &#8211; context violating exaptation. Ever since I read this tweet in 2012 by Fast Company, I have redefined innovation in this way. Here is the first definition of exaptation from Dictionary.com. noun, Biology 1. a process in which a feature acquires a function that was not acquired through natural selection. By taking something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/28\/innovation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">innovation &#8211; a new definition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","tag-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/g6x514noIhjEVzDH53DR-1-dag3h.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eKak-8l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetpen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}