How Innovation Works

(10)
How Innovation Works image
ISBN-10:

0008334846

ISBN-13:

9780008334840

Author(s): RIDLEY, Matt
Released: Mar 04, 2021
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Format: Paperback, 432 pages

Description:

‘Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success’ Sir James Dyson\nBuilding on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject.
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the twenty-first century. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen alike.
Matt Ridley argues that we need to see innovation as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan. Innovation is crucially different from invention, because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others. It is always a collective, collaborative phenomenon, involving trial and error, not a matter of lonely genius. It still cannot be modelled properly by economists, but it can easily be discouraged by politicians. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.
Ridley derives these and other lessons from the lively stories of scores of innovations – from steam engines to search engines – how they started and why they succeeded or failed.

Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780008334840




Related Books

Frequently Asked Questions about How Innovation Works

You can buy the How Innovation Works book at one of 20+ online bookstores with BookScouter, the website that helps find the best deal across the web. Currently, the best offer comes from and is $ for the .

The price for the book starts from $14.06 on Amazon and is available from 17 sellers at the moment.

At BookScouter, the prices for the book start at $6.57. Feel free to explore the offers for the book in used or new condition from various booksellers, aggregated on our website.

If you’re interested in selling back the How Innovation Works book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.

As for the How Innovation Works book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.

The How Innovation Works book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 2,275,897 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.

Not enough insights yet.