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ICC Advance Access published online on May 3, 2007
Industrial and Corporate Change, doi:10.1093/icc/dtl036
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved.

Pre-adaptation, exaptation and technology speciation: a comment on Cattani (2006)*

Nicholas Dew

Correspondence: Nicholas Dew, Graduate School of Business and Public Polcy, Naval Postgraduate School, 1 University Circle, Monterey, CA 93943, USA. E-mail: ndew{at}nps.edu

A recent article in this journal by Cattani (2006) pointed out that some part of a firm's technological knowledge base may be accumulated without anticipation of its subsequent uses but may later prove to have valuable applications. He called this technological pre-adaptation. This comment suggests that pre-adaptation is a confusing concept and offers an alternative term—exaptation—that might better describe the process Cattani refers to.


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