TOPICS AND PROGRAM
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6th September 2009

  19:30 - Welcome cocktail and dinner


7th September 2009

  08:45 - Starting Workshop Presentation (Pierpaolo Andriani)
  • Telmo Pievani (h. 9:00)
    "From Darwinian pre-adaptation to exaptation by Gould-Vrba: history of a concept"

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  • Massimo Warglien and Anna Comacchio (h. 9:40)
    "Conceptual blend and the innovation process" ...Abstract

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  • Pierpaolo Andriani, G. Carignani and Jack Cohen (h. 10:00)
    "Innovation in biology and technology: exaptation precedes adaptation"

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  • Peter Allen (h. 10:20)
    "Complexity: the Inevitability of Heterogeneity and Exaptation"

    •   10:40 - Coffee break
  • Bruno Murari (h. 11:20)
    "Technical developments and functional shifts in the evolution of MEMS"

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  • Pier Mario Biava (h. 11:40)
    "A New Vision of Cancer Treatment Based on Complexity Model"

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  • Fiorello Cortiana (h. 12:00)
    "Information and exaptation"

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  • Cedric Thomas (h. 12:20)
    "Commercial open source software and the commoditization catalyst"...Abstract

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    •   12:40 - End of presentations

      13:00 - Lunch
  • John Odling-Smee (h. 18:30)
    "Science and philosophy in exaptation process: some conclusions"


    •   19:10 - Panel with all the speakers

      21:00 - Dinner


    8th September 2009
  • Geoffrey Hodgson (h. 8:30)
    "Exaptation, Adaptation and the Problem of Fitness in Social Evolution" ...Abstract

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  • Lucio Biggiero (h. 09:10)
    "Redundancy as the key requisite for exaptation. The implication of its recognition for economics and management science"

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  • Gino Cattani (h. 09:30)
    "Preadaptation, Firm Heterogeneity and Technological Performance"

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  • Gianluigi Guido, Giovanni Pino and A. M. Peluso (h. 10:10)
    "Advances in the research on organizational creativity: from the analysis of the behavioral determinants to the application of the concept of exaptation "

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    •   10:30 - Coffee break
  • Andrea Ganzaroli and Luciano Pilotti (h. 11:00)
    "Exaptation and innovation: varieties and context interaction beyond selection. Some comments"

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  • Marco Corsino, Roberto Gabriele and E. Zaninotto (h. 11:20)
    "Organizational Capabilities And Industry Dynamics: A Computational Model"

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  • Cristina Boari, Guido Fioretti, Vincenza Odorici (h. 11:40)
    "Innovation emerging in a Knowledge Network"

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  • Gabriele Ruffatti (Engineering Group) (h. 12:00)
    "Open source between innovation and pre-adaptation over markets mechanism in knowledge society" ...Abstract

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  • Enzo Badalotti (h. 12:20)
    "Toward the age of "nextaptation"? Management experiences in media industry " ... Abstract

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    •   12:40 - End of presentations

      13:00 - Lunch

      Afternoon - Visit to the lemon trees garden and Villa Bettoni oil                           manufacturing site with local products tasting
  • h. 18.30: Daniel Levinthal
    "Reconciling Gradualism and Punctuation in the Management Literature"

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    •   19:10 - Panel with all the speakers

      21:00 - Gala Dinner


    9th September 2009
  • Marco Villani, David Lane and Roberto Serra (h. 8:30)
    "A dynamical model of exaptive innovation processes" ...Abstract

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  • Pier Paolo Saviotti (h. 08:50)
    "Adaptation, product characteristics, technological paradigms and trajectories"


  • F. Belussi and S. Sedita (h. 09:10)
    "Learning across boundaries and sources: exaptation beyond closed innovation models of knowledge management"


  • Augusto Carena (Dharma Consulting) (h. 09:30)
    "Education and exaptation in learning organization"

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  • Vito Rotondi (Calearo Group) (h. 09:50)
    "Some comments"

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    •   10:10 - Coffee break
  • L. Salvador (ENI Group) (h. 10:40)
    "Some comments"


  • Ernesto Damiani, Gabriele Gianini, Paolo Ceravolo, Stelvio Cimato (h. 11:40)
    "Perspectives in Open Service Innovation" ...Abstract

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  • Emil Abirascid (Nova 24) (h. 11:20)
    "Some comments"

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  • Santi Furnari (h. 11:40)
    "Mechanisms Of Aesthetic Exaptation In Artefact Design: How A Beaux-Arts Garden Evolved Into An Avant-Garde Art Park" ...Abstract

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  • Dave Snowden (Cognitive Edge) (h. 12:00)
    "Some comments"


    •   12:20 - Discussion: So what? Is there a way forward for exaptation

      13:00 - Lunch


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