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In How Innovation Works, Matt Ridley explains how and why innovation happens “when people are free to think, experiment, and speculate. It happens when people can trade with each other. It happens when people are relatively prosperous, not desperate. It…
Read MoreAN UGLY TRUTH: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang Harper (July 2021) A brilliant analysis of efforts to grow Facebook’s size and profitability, no matter what Here is a brief excerpt from Sarah Frier‘s review of…
Read MoreIn How Innovation Works, Matt Ridley observes: “The twentieth century saw only one innovative source of energy on any scale: nuclear power. (Wind and solar, though much improved and with a promising future, still supply less than 2 per cent…
Read MoreIn How Innovation Works, Matt Ridley observes: ‘”Big companies are bad at innovation, because they are too bureaucratic, have too big a vested interest in the status quo, and stop paying attention to the interests, actual and potential, of their…
Read MoreIn How Innovation Works, Matt Ridley explains how and why innovation happens “when people are free to think, experiment, and speculate. It happens when people can trade with each other. It happens when people are relatively prosperous, not desperate. It…
Read MoreIn How Innovation Works, Matt Ridley explains how and why innovation happens “when people are free to think, experiment, and speculate. It happens when people can trade with each other. It happens when people are relatively prosperous, not desperate. It…
Read MoreIn How Innovation Works, Matt Ridley explains how and why innovation happens “when people are free to think, experiment, and speculate. It happens when people can trade with each other. It happens when people are relatively prosperous, not desperate. It…
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Who invented the computer?
Most innovation is a gradual process. It is also a team sport, as Matt Ridley correctly suggests. Thomas Edison was eventually awarded 1,093 (singular or joint) patents for research and development of breakthrough innovations. At any time throughout a period…
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