
Where Good Ideas Come From
- 326 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 2010
- 5 editions
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1 About this book
This work tracks the history of innovation in the form of the "slow hunch". The author discusses how new ideas form from the scaffolding of older ideas, a phenomenon he describes as the "adjacent possible". Includes delightful figures of how innovative ideas are shifting from one man with a plan for a profit to many minds working for the public good.
Good for readers who want: evolution, science, and business.
- Evolution
- Science
- Motivational
- Social science
- Business & economics
- History
- Inventions
- Creativity
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