Evolutionary Innovation - Marc Hudson

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    • DILC
      • DILC glossary
        • Attention bubbles
        • Celebrity status
        • Closed industry front
        • Co-evolution
        • Corporate strategies
        • Culture of resistance
        • Cyclical issue lifecycle
        • Cyclical path
        • DILC Phase 1: Problem emergence and industry neglect
        • DILC Phase 2: Rising public attention and defensive industry responses
        • DILC Phase 3 Political debates, controversies and defensive hedging
        • DILC Phase 4 Formation and implementation of substantive policy and industry diversification
        • DILC Phase 5 Spillovers to the task environment and industry‘recreation’
        • Economic frame conditions
        • Economic positioning strategies
        • Face work
        • First-mover advantage
        • Future expectations
        • Grand societal challenges
        • Greening of Business literature
        • Halted path
        • Hedging
        • Incumbent firms
        • Innovation race
        • Jockeying for position
        • Legitimacy
        • Market-positioning strategies
        • Mobilization processes
        • Moral consumers
        • Political strategies
        • Political will
        • Pressures
        • Primary involvement arena
        • Problem emergence
        • Public attention
        • Recursive path
        • Reorientation
        • Risk aversion
        • Scientific pressure
        • Secondary involvement arena
        • Selection pressures
        • Sense-making
        • Skipped path
        • Social fitness
        • Socio-cultural strategies
        • Strategic diversification
        • Substantive responses
        • Symbolic responses
        • Triple embeddedness framework
        • Vested interests
    • Innovation terminology
      • Absorptive capacity
      • Actors
      • Adaptive capacity
      • Adhocracy
      • Agency, distributed
      • Agency, embedded
      • Ambidextrous organisations
      • Amortisation
      • Anchoring
      • Announcement effect
      • Applied research
      • Architectural innovation
      • Assimilation capability
      • Attackers’ Advantage
      • Basic research
      • Bohemias
      • Bootleg innovation
      • Boundary conditions
      • Boundary organisations
      • Boundary spanners
      • Boundary work
      • Branching innovations
      • Breakthrough innovation
      • Breakthrough innovation
      • Bridging markets
      • Business cycle
      • Business model innovations
      • Capabilities push
      • Capability evolution
      • Capability substitution
      • Capability transformation
      • Capacity factors
      • Capacity-destroying innovations
      • Capacity-enhancing innovations
      • Capital investment
      • Capitalism
      • Climate Change Authority
      • Closed innovation
      • Co-evolution
      • Co-specialized assets
      • Cognitive distance
      • Cognitive legitimacy
      • Combinative capabilities
      • Combinatorial innovation
      • Common Innovation
      • Competence Traps
      • Competence-destroying innovations
      • Competence-enhancing innovations
      • Competence-expanding innovation
      • Complementary Assets
      • Core competencies
      • Core rigidities
      • Corporate social innovation
      • Cost curve
      • Cost, opportunity
      • Costs, bargaining
      • Costs, policing and enforcement
      • Costs, search and information
      • Costs, switching
      • Costs, transaction
      • Creative accumulation
      • Creative destruction
      • Creovation
      • Decisive demonstration
      • Demand pull
      • Demand-pull absorptive capacity
      • Derivative innovation
      • Destabilisation
      • Diffusion of innovations
      • Discontinuous Innovation
      • Disruptive innovation
      • Distributed innovation
      • Distributed innovation
      • Dominant design
      • Dynamic Capabilities
      • Early adopters
      • Eco-innovation
      • Economies of Scale
      • Elevator pitch
      • Embedded agency
      • Emergent industry
      • Emergent Innovation
      • Entrepreneurship
      • Entropy
      • Environmental Innovation Strategies
      • Evasive innovation
      • Evolutionary Innovation
      • Expectation management
      • Experience curve
      • Exploitation
      • Exploitation capability
      • Exploration
      • Externality
      • Externality, positional
      • Externality, positive
      • Externality, technological
      • Finance Capital
      • Firm entry
      • First mover advantage
      • Fixed assets
      • Frugal innovation
      • Fundamental Innovation
      • Generic assets
      • Global Production Networks
      • Global Value Chains
      • Grid parity
      • Hedging Strategy
      • Human Capital
      • Hype-disappointment cycles
      • Identity-challenging innovation
      • Identity-sustaining innovation
      • Impact science
      • Inclusive Innovation
      • Incremental innovation
      • Incumbent’s curse
      • Incumbent-challenger dynamics (ICD)
      • Incumbents
      • Industry architecture
      • Industry participants
      • Industry-level attention
      • Inframarginal Externality
      • Innovation
      • Innovation Chain
      • Innovation clusters
      • Innovation effect
      • Innovation Management
      • Innovation strategies
      • Innovation studies
      • Innovation systems
      • Innovation, challenge driven
      • Innovation, Continuous
      • Innovation, cumulative
      • Innovative innovation
      • Institutional anchoring
      • Institutional Entrepreneurship
      • Institutional shifts
      • Integrated innovation
      • Intellectual property
      • Inter-firm alliances
      • Jevons Paradox
      • Joy’s law
      • Kluge
      • Knowledge acquisition capability
      • Knowledge development
      • Knowledge management
      • Knowledge spillover
      • Kondatriev Waves
      • Learning by searching
      • Learning curve
      • Learning investment
      • Learning networks
      • Learning rate
      • Learning spaces
      • Learning, experience-based
      • Learning-by-doing
      • Learning-by-using
      • Legacy systems
      • Legitimation
      • Liability of Newness
      • Linear model of innovation
      • Liquid assets
      • Long Wave theory
      • Market creation
      • Market failure
      • Market formation
      • Market pull
      • Market Transformation
      • Market window
      • Mass innovation
      • Mass Market
      • Mental maps
      • Meta-innovation
      • Minimum Efficient Scale
      • National Systems of Innovation
      • Negative externality
      • Network anchoring
      • Networks
      • Niche construction
      • Niche splintering
      • Niches
      • Non-technological innovation
      • Normative innovation
      • Nursing Markets
      • Open Innovation
      • Open Sustainability Innovation
      • Operational capabilities
      • Outside innovation
      • Palimpsest
      • Peak of inflated expectations
      • Performance overshooting
      • Peter Principle
      • Plateau of productivity
      • Platform innovation
      • Political Aspects of Innovation
      • Porter hypothesis
      • Post-normal science
      • Potential absorptive capacity
      • Presumptive anomaly
      • Process innovation
      • Process management
      • Product innovation
      • Production science
      • Proof of Concept
      • Protected spaces
      • Protective space
      • Public good
      • Radical innovation
      • Realized absorptive capacity
      • Recombinant innovation
      • Reconfiguration mechanisms
      • Red Queen effect
      • Redescription
      • Regulator credibility
      • Regulatory science
      • Regulatory state
      • Relative absorptive capacity
      • Rent-seeking
      • Research and Development
      • Response capacity
      • Responsible Innovation
      • Return on investment
      • Reverse Engineering
      • Reverse innovation
      • Reverse salients
      • Sailing Ship effect
      • Science-push absorptive capacity
      • Seed capital
      • Serendipity
      • Service Innovation
      • Service-logic innovation
      • Skunkworks
      • Slope of Enlightenment
      • Social Innovation
      • Socio-political legitimacy
      • Sociology of Expectations
      • Specialized assets
      • Spontaneous innovation
      • State, developmental
      • State, hidden developmental
      • Stop-and-go funding
      • Stranded assets
      • Strategic Innovation
      • Strategic Niche Management
      • Sunk costs
      • Supply chains
      • Sustainable innovation
      • Sweated assets
      • Swing producer
      • Switching costs
      • Systemic model of innovation
      • Technological affordances
      • Technological anchoring
      • Technological determinism
      • Technological discontinuities
      • Technological innovation
      • Technological innovation system
      • Technology appraisal
      • Technology Readiness Level
      • Technology trigger
      • Technology-forcing policies
      • Technology-push
      • Technology-specific advocacy coalitions
      • Technophilia
      • Technophobia
      • Trading zone
      • Transformation capability
      • Transformational experience
      • Transilience
      • Transilience index
      • Trough of Disillusionment
      • Uncanny Valley
      • Unintended consequences
      • Unit Cost
      • User innovation
      • Valley of obsolescence
      • Value chain
      • Value drain
      • Value Innovation
      • Value leak
      • Value network
      • Value networks
      • Variation Innovation
      • Vendor lock-in
      • Venture capital
      • Weitzman’s maximum likelihood procedure
      • White elephant
    • Methodology
      • Auto-ethnographies
      • Case studies
      • Interviews
        • Interview methodology and traps
        • Well they would say that, wouldn’t they?
      • Process tracing
    • Multi-Level Perspective (MLP)
    • Multiple Streams Approach
    • PhD 2014 to 2017
      • 2008 to 2012 period
      • Australia
        • “No carbon tax under the government I lead”
        • 1988 Australian Coal Association Conference
        • 2004 Energy White Paper aka “Securing Australia’s Energy Future”
        • 2010 Greens proposal for carbon tax
        • aNiMaLS – National Media Liaison Service
        • Asia Pacific Partnership
        • Australia 2020 summit
        • Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change
        • Australian Coal Association
        • Australian Conservation Foundation
        • Australian Energy Market Commission
        • Australian Greenhouse Office
        • Australian Industry Greenhouse Network
        • Australian Renewable Energy Agency
        • Brown, Bob
        • Business Council of Australia
        • Carbon Farming Initiative
        • Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)
        • CFMEU
        • Citizens Assembly proposal, 2010
        • Clean Energy Council
        • Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC)
        • Clean Energy Future package
        • Climate Commission
        • Combet,Greg
        • Commission for the Future
        • Direct Action
        • Federal Election 1972
        • Federal Election 1983
        • Federal Election 1984
        • Federal Election 1987
        • Federal Election 1990
        • Federal Election 1993
        • Federal Election 1996
        • Federal Election 1998
        • Federal Election 2001
        • Federal Election 2004
        • Federal Election 2007
        • Federal Election 2010
        • Federal Election 2013
        • Federal Election 2016
        • Fightback!
        • Four phases of (recent) party development in Australia
        • Garnaut Review
        • Garnaut, Ross
        • Get Up
        • Gillard, Julia
        • Graham Richardson
        • Green Paper on CPRS (July 2008)
        • Green Party
        • Greenpeace Australia
        • Henry Review
        • Howard, John
        • Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)
        • John Hewson
        • Joyce, Barnaby
        • Keep Mining Strong
        • Labor Party
        • Let’s Cut Emissions Not Jobs
        • Liberal Party
        • Lindsay Tanner
        • Martin Ferguson
        • Midnight Oil
        • Milne, Christine
        • Minerals Council of Australia
        • Mining. This is Our Story
        • Multi-party Committee on Climate Change
        • National Climate Change Summit 31 March 2007
        • National Party
        • Neil Lawrence
        • NewGen Coal
        • Paul Keating
        • Peak Conservation Organisation
        • Petroleum Resource Rent Tax 1984
        • Phillip Toyne
        • Poseiden bubble
        • Ros Kelly
        • Rudd, Kevin
        • Say Yes coalition
        • Southern Cross Climate Coalition
        • Swan, Wayne
        • The Australia Institute
        • The Climate Institute
        • Tony Abbott
        • Treasury modelling 2008
        • Treasury modelling 2011
        • Turnbull, Malcolm
        • Victorian Labor factional politics
        • White Paper on CPRS (December 2008)
        • Wong, Penny
        • WWF- Australia
      • References
      • My PhD – what’s it all about?
    • Policy terms (alphabetical list)
      • “Rare Trifecta”
      • Access goods
      • Adoption coalitions
      • Advocacy advertising
      • Agencements
      • Agenda Denial
      • Agenda entrance
      • Agenda Setting
      • Agnotology
      • Ambiguity
      • Angel Shift
      • Arena denial
      • Arenas
      • Astroturf
      • Attention Diversity
      • Balance of Interests
      • Black boxing
      • Bodies of Knowledge
      • Bounded rationality
      • Bricolage
      • Bridging activities
      • Buffering activities
      • Bureaucracy
      • Celebration capitalism
      • Choreographed consultation
      • Co-ordinated Market Economies
      • Coalition defection
      • Coalition formation
      • Coalition Resources
      • Cockpit-ism
      • Coercive Bureaucracy
      • Cognitive Limitations
      • Collective good problem
      • Common pool resources
      • Competitive Consensus
      • Condensation symbols
      • Confluence Points
      • Constituency building
      • Conviction narratives
      • Corporate Political Activity
      • Corporate Political Strategy
      • Corporate political tactics
      • Corporate Social Responsibility
      • Coupling
      • Critical Junctures
      • De-dramatisation
      • Decision making
      • Decision Style
      • Deep Core Beliefs
      • Defensive Institutional Work
      • Defensive Political Strategies
      • Department-itis
      • Deregulatory ecological modernisation
      • Devil Shift
      • Diagnostic Framing
      • Dialectical
      • Disaster Capitalism
      • Disciplinary neoliberalism
      • Discourse Coalitions
      • Discourse Shopping
      • Discursive Institutionalism
      • Disjointed incrementalism
      • Disruptive Institutional Work
      • Emotional Endowment
      • Emotionalization
      • Enabling bureaucracy
      • Enlightenment
      • Epistemic Communities
      • Epistemic Rift
      • Evangelical/Capitalist Resonance Machine
      • Evidence-based Policy-making
      • Expressive salience
      • External (System) Events
      • External Shocks
      • Fantasy documents
      • Feedback (negative)
      • Feedback (positive)
      • Field Theory
      • Financial contributions
      • Firm responsiveness
      • Focussing Events
      • Frame contestation
      • Framing
      • Free-rider problem
      • Friction
      • Garbage Can
      • Habermasian Political Corporate Social Responsibility
      • Hegemonic accommodation
      • Hegemony
      • Heresthetics
      • Hidden Developmental State
      • Historical bloc
      • Hurting Stalemate
      • Implementation coalitions
      • Inclusive Capitalism
      • Indicators
      • Industry image
      • Industry Reputation
      • Information entrepreneur
      • Initiativitis
      • Innovation effort
      • Institutional redesign
      • Institutional Rule Manipulation
      • Institutional strategies
      • Institutional Void
      • Institutional work
      • Instrument Constituencies
      • Internal Shocks
      • Iron Law of Oligarchy
      • Issue containment
      • Issue Expansion
      • Issue linkage
      • Issue salience
      • Knowledge broker
      • Liberal Market Economies
      • Life Cycle Models
      • Load
      • Lobbying
      • Local knowledge
      • Lock-in
      • Lock-in traps
      • Logic of Appropriateness
      • Long Term Coalition Opportunity Structures
      • Market civilization
      • Market socialism
      • Mature policy subsystem
      • Meritocracy
      • Mobilisation of Bias
      • Motivational framing
      • Narrative Policy Framework
      • National Mood
      • Negotiated agreements
      • New political Corporate Social Responsibility
      • New Public Management
      • Nonmarket strategy
      • Orders of change
      • Organisational decay
      • Party ideology
      • Passive Consensus
      • Path Creation
      • Path Dependency
      • Perception Management
      • Perceptual Filters
      • Permanent campaign
      • Policy areas
      • Policy autism
      • Policy Beliefs
      • Policy Borrowing
      • Policy Brokers
      • Policy Bubbles
      • Policy Coherence
      • Policy Communities
      • Policy constraints
      • Policy control
      • Policy Core Beliefs
      • Policy cycle
      • Policy Design
      • Policy Dynamics
      • Policy Entrepreneurs
      • Policy Evaluation
      • Policy failure
      • Policy Feedback
      • Policy Formulation
      • Policy Image
      • Policy Impacts
      • Policy Implementation
      • Policy instruments
      • Policy integration
      • Policy Learning
      • Policy legacies
      • Policy mess
      • Policy Milieu
      • Policy mix
      • Policy Monopoly
      • Policy Narratives
      • Policy Networks
      • Policy Outputs
      • Policy Paradigms
      • Policy Paradox
      • Policy punctuations
      • Policy Regimes
      • Policy Settlement
      • Policy stages
      • Policy Stasis
      • Policy Stream
      • Policy style
      • Policy Subsystems
      • Policy Surrogates
      • Policy Transfer
      • Policy Windows
      • Policy-based Evidence-Making
      • Policy-packaging
      • Policy-patching
      • Political compliance strategy
      • Political Corporate Social Responsbility
      • Political Implementation
      • Political influence strategy
      • Politics Stream
      • Post Normal Science
      • Primeval Soup
      • Problem Broker
      • Problem Broker
      • Problem Stream
      • Process Stream
      • Prognostic Framing
      • Programme Stream
      • Property-owning democracy
      • Psyops
      • Public Opinion
      • Public value
      • Quiet politics
      • Quotes about policy-making
      • Rational choice
      • Rawlsian political Corporate Social Responsibility
      • Referent Others
      • Referential Symbols
      • Regulatory Capture
      • Relatively Stable Parameters
      • Resonance machines
      • Resource Adequacy
      • Resource Dependency Theory
      • Responsibility displacement strategies
      • Reverberation cycles
      • Rules
      • Salami Tactics
      • Secondary aspects
      • Selective attention
      • Short-Term constraints and resources of subsystem actors
      • Side payments
      • Situated cognition
      • Social Learning
      • Social movements
      • Sociocentrism
      • Sociotechnical transitions
      • Spill-over
      • State
      • Strategic cognition
      • Strategic frame
      • Streams
      • Structural determination of attention
      • Sub-confluence points
      • Subject positions
      • Subsystem collapse
      • Super-wicked problems
      • Sustainability
      • Symbolic implementation
      • Technical Feasibility
      • Trade associations
      • Translation
      • Upper Echelon Theory
      • Value Acceptability
      • Value poaching
      • Varieties of Capitalism
      • Venue creation
      • Venue Shopping
      • Venues
      • Veto Coalitions
      • Welfare-State Capitalism
      • Wicked Problems
    • Project Bard
    • Punctuated Equilibrium
    • United Kingdom climate governance
      • 10 articles in 16 days
      • 20 articles in 33 days
      • UK Climate Governance Timeline
      • United Kingdom climate governance acronyms
      • United Kingdom climate governance references
    • Conferences and how to survive them
      • Your powerpoint
      • Post conference blog template
    • Academic habits that get on my tits
    • Normativity, objectivity et cetera
    • Novels about academic life
  • Activism (mostly climate)
    • Citizenship
      • Climate Change
        • That “Metamorphosis” statement in full…
        • UNFCCC COPs
          • COP 1 – Berlin
          • COP 10 – Buenos Airies
          • COP 11- Montreal
          • COP 12- Nairobi
          • COp 13- Bali
          • COP 14- Poznan
          • COP 15- Copenhagen
          • COP 16- Cancun
          • COP 17 – Durban
          • COP 18 – Doha
          • COP 19- Warsaw
          • COP 2 Geneva
          • COP 20- Lima
          • COP 21 – Paris
          • COP 22- Marrakech
          • COP 3 – Kyoto
          • COP 4- Buenos Aires
          • COP 5 – Bonn
          • COP 6- The Hague
          • COP 7- Marrakech
          • COP 8- New Delhi
          • COP 9- Milan
      • Social Movements
        • Abeyance
        • Accountability
        • Action technologies
        • Affinity Groups
        • Antinomian Groups
        • Anxiety-management rituals
        • Avuncularitis
        • Barricades
        • Biographical Availability
        • Bonding capital
        • Bridging capital
        • Burn out
        • Charivari
        • Cliques
        • Co-optation
        • COINTELPRO
        • Collective Competence
        • Corporate Opportunity Structure
        • Cycles of protest
        • Decruitment
        • Demonstrations
        • Direct Theory
        • Discursive Repertoires
        • Ecological Modernisation
        • Ego-fodder
        • Emotathons
        • Emotions (in Social Movements)
          • The jaunty apocalypse
        • Expectational Gap
        • Facipulation
        • Friendship networks
        • Greenwash
        • Groupthink
        • Initiator movements
        • Intangible assets
        • Intentional communities
        • Issue attention cycles
        • Issue entrepreneurs
        • Law of Two Feet
        • Legitimate Peripheral Participation
        • Logistics
        • Marches
        • Meetings
        • Mobilisation
        • Mobilisation technologies
        • Movement Action Plan
        • Movement Cultures
        • Movement-building
        • Multi-organisational field
        • No-one ever is to blame
        • Open Space
        • Post-ecological thinking
        • Prefigurative politics
          • The zealot-hypocrite trap
        • Production technologies
        • Rallies
        • Recruitment
        • Repertoires
        • Resource mobilization
        • Retention
        • Rhizome
        • Ritualistic behaviour
        • Sage on the Stage
        • Sensitise the elite decision-makers
        • Significant Life Experiences
        • Single point of failure
        • Sit-ins
        • Smugosphere
        • Social capital
        • Social Movement Ecosystems
        • Social Movement Learning
        • Social Movement Marketplace
        • Spill over
        • Spin-off movements
        • Strategy
        • Study the Rich
        • Tactics
        • Tangible assets
        • Transactive Memory
        • Tyranny of Stucturelessness
        • Unconferences
        • Zombie Repertoires
    • Loombreakers
      • #Manchester Campaign Contacts January 2002
      • Loombreaker 02 (July 1999)
      • Loombreaker 03 (August 1999)
      • Loombreaker 04 (September 1999)
      • Loombreaker 05 (October 1999)
      • Loombreaker 06 (November 1999)
      • Loombreaker 07 (December 1999)
      • Loombreaker 08 (January 2000)
      • Loombreaker 09 (xxxx 2000)
      • Loombreaker 10 (April 2000)
      • Loombreaker 11 (May/June 2000)
      • Loombreaker 12 (July 2000)
      • Loombreaker 13 (August 2000)
      • Loombreaker 14 (September2000)
      • Loombreaker 15 (December2000)
      • Loombreaker 17 (March 2001)
      • Loombreaker 18 (April 2001)
      • Loombreaker 20 (July 2001)
      • Loombreaker 21 (August 2001)
      • Loombreaker 22 (September 2001)
      • Loombreaker 23 (Oct/Nov 2001)
      • Loombreaker 24 (December 2001)
      • Loombreaker 25 (January 2002)
      • Loombreaker 26 (February/March 2002)
      • Loombreaker 27 (April 2002)
      • Loombreaker 29 (July 2002)
      • Loombreaker 30 (August/September 2002)
      • Loombreaker 31 (October 2002)
      • Loombreaker 32 (November 2002)
      • Loombreaker 33 (December 2002)
      • Loombreaker 34 (January 2003)
    • Manchester Climate Fortnightly
    • Manchester Climate Monthly
    • Projects
      • Skills to acquire
    • The “What is to be done?” question
    • The Conservation Society
    • The Magpie – Manchester Wildlife Newsletter
      • Magpie articles
        • Magpie 15 – Planning Matters
        • Magpie 16- Business Parks
        • Magpie 19 – Sainsbury Boycott
        • Magpie 20 – Butterflies  of Abney Hall
        • Magpie 20 – Hay Meadow or Superstore?
        • Magpie 20 – Wildlife Advisory Group Approved
        • Magpie 22 – 1992 Environment Week in #Manchester
        • Magpie 22 – Manchester City Park Wardens
        • Magpie 22 – Where were you on fifth of April
        • Magpie 25 – Wake Up The World is Dying”
        • Magpie 26 – “Road to Ruin” #TwyfordDown
        • Magpie 27 – 0dds and Ends – “Global Forum ’94
        • Magpie 27 – Abbey Villa
        • Magpie 28 – Trouble at t’ Pond
        • Magpie 28 – Abbey Pond on Red Alert
        • Magpie 28 – Partnership for Change, the Inside Story
        • Magpie 28 – What larks!
        • Magpie 29 – Abbey Pond Last Rites
        • Magpie 29 – Global Forum ’94
        • Magpie 30 – Global Forum
        • Magpie 30 – The last hours of Abbey Pond
        • Magpie 32 – Healthy Manchester 2000
        • Magpie 32 – Local Agenda 21
        • Magpie 32 Bellamy Bites Back
        • Magpie 32- Global Forum 94
        • Magpie 33 – Local Agenda 21
        • Magpie 34 – Global Forum 94: An Historical Report
        • Magpie 34 – Local Agenda 21
        • Magpie 35 – Global Forum ’94 A Historical Report
        • Magpie 35 – Local Agenda 21 is dead
        • Magpie 35 – Reclaim the Streets
        • Magpie 35- Ombudsman stirs up “pond” memories #AbbeyPond
        • Magpie 36 – Local Agenda 21 IS Rubbish
        • Magpie 36 – Local Agenda 21 is RUBBISH!
        • Magpie 36- Coalition Against Runway 2
        • Magpie 36- Fresh Air Now – Please?
        • Magpie 37 – LA21 launch
        • Magpie 39 – Biodiversity is Local Agenda 21
        • Magpie 39- another fluffy one (Reclaim the Streets)
        • Magpie 45 – Local Agenda 21
        • Magpie 46 – Local Agenda 21 in Manchester
        • Magpie 47 – Local Agenda 21
        • Magpie 50 – Global Warming – the end of wildlife as we know it? 
      • The Magpie 19 – Spring 1991
      • The Magpie 20 – Summer 1991
      • The Magpie 21 – Winter 1991-2
      • The Magpie 22, Spring 1992
      • The Magpie 23 – Summer 1992
  • Bard to the Bone: the other half of Shakespeare
  • Carbon Capture and Storage
    • CCS articles worth your time
    • My CCS writing
  • DeFT
  • Do you like Kipling?
  • Doom diaries
  • Groundhog Day or End of Days?
    • Groundhog Day Interviews
      • Interview with Alastair McIntosh
      • Interviewee 03 (23rd February)
      • Groundhog Day Interview Six
  • Harold Nicholson on the Radio
  • Juggling
  • Twenty seven “Great British Short Stories”
  • Videos
    • Marc & Humbug videos
  • What are words for
    • Abulia
    • Accismus
    • Acedia
    • Adiaphora
    • aestivation
    • Aggressively-ignorant
    • Akrasia
    • Alethophobia
    • Altschmerz
    • Anadiplosis
    • Anadromous
    • Analepsis
    • Anamorphosis
    • Anecdoche
    • Anocracy
    • apatetic
    • Aphantasia
    • Apophenia
    • Aporia
    • Aspaklaria
    • Assetised
    • Astragalomancy
    • Asymbolia
    • Aufbau
    • Bayard
    • beskonfliktnost
    • Botshit
    • Brochuremanship
    • Bunraku
    • Cainophobia
    • Camarilla
    • Catachresis
    • Cataphract
    • Catenaccio
    • Chrysalism
    • Connectome
    • Copaganda
    • Cosmograms
    • Craquelure
    • Deja Woo
    • Diagonalism
    • Discernemia
    • dormiveglia
    • dysrationalia
    • Ecotone
    • Enshittocene
    • entasis
    • Enthalpy
    • Excrementalities
    • Exergy
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From Andreas Wagner, The Origins of Evolutionary Innovations: As a broad definition, an evolutionary innovation is any new trait that introduces something “novel” compared to before. For example, the discover of photosynthesis has been an evolutionary innovation, or the multicellularity has been a revolutionary thing when it appeared.27 Jan 2012

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