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Book 2011

Where Good Ideas Come From

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Publisher
Penguin Group US
Language
English
Published
2011
  • SCIENCE
  • Motivational
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  • History

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.