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How Innovation Works

By Matt Ridley

We often credit innovation to lone geniuses and 'eureka' moments. This episode dismantles that myth, revealing innovation as a messy, collaborative, and evolutionary process driven by collective effort, serendipity, and the free exchange of ideas.

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“We often credit innovation to lone geniuses and 'eureka' moments. This episode dismantles that myth, revealing innovation as a messy, collaborative, and evolutionary process driven by collective effort, serendipity, and the free exchange of ideas.”

— Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works

What it is about

innovation, creativity, progress

Who it is for

Best suited to listeners who want a clearer working understanding of innovation, creativity, progress and better judgment in how they apply it.

The author

Matt Ridley brings a credible and useful lens to innovation, creativity, progress, with enough subject command to make the book worth hearing.

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Matt Ridley

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