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Technology “second life” refers to discovering happen accidentally, by chance, as side effects of other experiments, or technology translated in another context, that the inventor was unable to image. This is fundamental for triggering innovations and crucial advances in science and technology. In both cases, sagacity and creativity lead to imagine how to apply or exploit observations and their linked data. This chapter briefly recalls some famous cases in technology field showing how serendipity and exaptation are fuelled and interconnected by the source of emergent creativity. We can show the importance of that “convergence” in research and applied policy (for science and industrial fields) of two main trajectories oriented, primarily (a) to hybridization of knowledge and applied crossing fields and, secondarily (b) to continuous contamination of extended specializations and competences in organization and/or in R&D department: new paths of open innovation process.
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Leporini, B., Buzzi, M., Pilotti, L. (2020). The Technology Second Chance: Leveraging Creativity by Convergence of Serendipity and Exaptation Processes. In: La Porta, C., Zapperi, S., Pilotti, L. (eds) Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45784-6_9
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