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ICC Advance Access originally published online on April 21, 2008
Industrial and Corporate Change 2008 17(3):585-596; doi:10.1093/icc/dtn011
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved.

Reply to Dew's (2007) commentary: "Pre-adaptation, exaptation and technology speciation: a comment on Cattani (2006)"

Gino Cattani

Correspondence: Stern Business School – NYU, 40 West Fourth Street, Tisch Hall Suite 7–14, New York, NY 10012, USA. e-mail: gcattani{at}stern.nyu.edu

This article responds to the critique by Nicholas Dew (2007) on an earlier article by Cattani (2006) which suggested that Cattani's use of the term "pre-adaptation" should be replaced by an alternative term "exaptation." The article responds to that suggestion and attempts to redirect discussion toward the evolutionary significance of pre-adaptation within the context of technology, a task central to any evolutionary theory of technological change.


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