| Sumario: | An innovation is the materialization of a novel idea. The individual mental creation must be followed by institutional and social processes. Also the mental creation is not purely individual but emerges within a culture and an economic milieu. Innovative change could be serendipitous, even serendipity, however, Pasteur remarked, is not fortuitous, but requires readiness to capture it and transform it into insight. Innovation is the capturing of a creative idea and its maturation as a useful object or procedure. Novelty (i.e. measurable, causal creativity) defines bios. The Bios Theory of Evolution (Sabelli, 2005, 2007) provides a model to promote creative innovation. While the empirical bases of the theory cannot be developed here, the article includes references to relevant scientific publications. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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