Abstract
Innovation is not only central to changes in traditional practice but arguably responsible for humanity's remarkable success at colonizing the earth and diversifying the products, technologies, and systems within it. Surprisingly little is known of how this integral component of behavioral flexibility develops and the factors that are responsible for individual differences therein. This review highlights two primary ways in which the process and development of innovation may be better understood: By emulating the critical advances of animal behavior researchers in examining innovation in nonhuman species and establishing a clearer conceptualization of what is “innovation”. A pathway to innovation is suggested and an innovation classification system offered to aid recognition of its appearance and potential cultural contributions.
Highlights
We focus on behavioral innovation in the physical domain, novel problem solving in the context of tool use
Cultural innovation is to cultural evolution what mutation is to biological evolution: without innovation, cultural traits and cultural transmission would not exist
Whilst this review provides an individual-level definition of innovation, it is impossible to detach discussion of individual innovations from discussion of cultural innovations
Summary
Citation for published item: Carr, K. and Kendal, R.L. and Flynn, E.G. (2016) 'Eureka! : What is innovation, how does it develop, and who does it?', Child development., 87 (5). pp. 1505-1519. The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:. A full bibliographic reference is made to the original source a link is made to the metadata record in DRO the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Durham University Library, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LY, United Kingdom Tel : +44 (0)191 334 3042 | Fax : +44 (0)191 334 2971 https://dro.dur.ac.uk
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