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100	1		_aRidley, Matt, _eauthor. _98467
245	1	0	_aHow innovation works : _band why it flourishes in freedom / _cMatt Ridley.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, _c[2020]
300			_a406 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Originally published as How innovation works: serendipity, energy and the saving of time in Great Britain in 2020 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers"--Title page verso
501			_aP.B
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 375-388) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: The Infinite Improbability Drive -- Energy -- Public health -- Transport -- Food -- Low-technology innovation -- Communication and computing -- Prehistoric innovation -- Innovation's essentials -- The economics of innovation -- Fakes, frauds, fads and failures -- Resistance to innovation -- An innovation famine.
520			_aBuilding on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, 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. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, 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 happens mainly in just a few parts of the world at any one time. It still cannot be modeled 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, how they started and why they succeeded or failed. Some of the innovation stories he tells are about steam engines, jet engines, search engines, airships, coffee, potatoes, vaping, vaccines, cuisine, antibiotics, mosquito nets, turbines, propellers, fertilizer, zero, computers, dogs, farming, fire, genetic engineering, gene editing, container shipping, railways, cars, safety rules, wheeled suitcases, mobile phones, corrugated iron, powered flight, chlorinated water, toilets, vacuum cleaners, shale gas, the telegraph, radio, social media, block chain, the sharing economy, artificial intelligence, fake bomb detectors, phantom games consoles, fraudulent blood tests, hyperloop tubes, herbicides, copyright, and even life itself.
650		0	_aDiffusion of innovations _xHistory. _98468
650		0	_aTechnological innovations _xSocial aspects. _98469
650		6	_aInnovations _xDiffusion _xHistoire. _98470
650		6	_aInnovations _xAspect social. _98471
650		7	_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS _xEntrepreneurship. _2bisacsh _98472
650		7	_aDiffusion of innovations. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00893549 _98473
650		7	_aTechnological innovations _xSocial aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01145049 _98474
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628 _98475
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