How about this defn: "innovation is the process of assimilating unpredicted new information structurally, functionally and behaviorally."
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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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Getting into philosophical territory there about whether it’s “information” before someone knows it. Tree falls in the forest.
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yup. I think I am an empiricist though. i.e., I don't believe an "a priori analytic" category exists.

