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How Innovation Works
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How Innovation Works

And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

Harper, 2020 mais...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Well Structured
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

Sliced bread came about in 1928 in Missouri. Matt Ridley argues that’s not incidental. Specific circumstances made the time and location ripe for this innovation. The award-winning author explores the factors that enable innovation, the conditions that foster it and the elements that make people receptive to it. Ridley demonstrates, through myriad examples, the power and lasting impact innovation brings to society in improving the way people farm, eat, communicate and live.

Take-Aways

  • Inventions become innovative when society finds them useful.
  • Innovation hinges on the ability to exchange ideas.
  • Innovation depends on experimentation, but relies on persistence and serendipity as well.

About the Author

Matt Ridley is the award-winning author of several books, including The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal and the UK newspaper The Times. He is a member of the House of Lords. 


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