How about this defn: "innovation is the process of assimilating unpredicted new information structurally, functionally and behaviorally."
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too passive (assimilating); need to add something bout decisionmaking (and acting on info, whether funding or work) *under uncertainty*
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Was considering embodying as an alt to assimilating. That better? "Under uncertainty" is implicit in the meaning of "information."
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Would the process of producing such information then be research?
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I'd say transmitting into economic sphere rather than producing. Original source = unexplored parts of nature.
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