The lifecycle explanation

Innovation ecology (IE) is the process by which thoughts become innovation. In the definitions I call this an invention lifecycle.

It goes from thoughts, to ideas, to inventions to innovation. Thoughts are the reflections of what we see around us. With innovation being those inventions which are useful.

How inventions become useful to a culture has to do with the needs of the culture at the time.

It is the acceptance of specific inventions that changes the type of innovation needed going foward.

This process is the 'lifecycle' of an invention - how it comes to be and how it evolves into the next phase.

There is a connection between the IE and socio-evoluton, the degree of which is debateable, but not the connection.