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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Innovation is complex, messy, and a collective process.
Chapter 3: Medical innovation brings high risks and even higher rewards.
Chapter 4: Travel innovation revolves around steady, incremental improvements.
Chapter 5: Some innovations aren’t objects at all, just good ideas.
Chapter 6: Our need to communicate drives rapid innovation.
Chapter 7: Innovation depends on chance, collaboration, and recombination.
Chapter 8: Innovation doesn’t necessarily flow from the top down.
Chapter 9: Innovation will always meet resistance.
Chapter 10: Innovation is lagging in the West but thriving elsewhere.
Description
How Innovation Works (2020) presents a provocative view of history in which innovation takes center stage. This detailed account of human ingenuity explains how innovation happens and why it is important.
Who Should Listen
History buffs interested in the roots of today’s technology
Futurists eagerly anticipating the next big invention
Anyone curious about how and why the world changes
About the Authors
Matt Ridley is a best-selling author focusing on science, technology, and economics. His many books include The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, and Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters.