Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation

Searching, Shaping, and the Quest for Superior Performance.- Serendipity Arrangements for Exapting Science-Based Innovations.- Facilitating Serendipity - Using Data, Algorithms, and Virtual Communities to Build Interdisciplinary Teams with Quantifiable Exaptation Potential.- Exaptation as a New View to See the Complexity of the World.- Innovation Through Exaptation.- Challenge New Materials with Exaptation.- Where Creativity and Innovation are much Needed Fuels.- Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life.- Exaptation, Serendipity and Ageing.- Exaptation for the Good and the Bad: Regeneration and Cancer.- Topological Data Analysis as an Instrument to Support Inverse Question-Driven Innovation.- "Cancer Culture" Underlying Cultural Exaptation.- Exaptation in the Protein World: Multifunctionality and Moonlighting.- Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Cultural Exaptation.- The Context of Inverse Question-Driven Innovation: Dancing with Innovation.- A Vision for the World in 2030 According to Exaptation.