How Innovation Works

Innovation has shaped the modern world - giving us vaccines, clean water, the food on our tables, the internet - and yet is mysteriously difficult to predict or plan.In this engrossing book, Matt Ridley uncovers the incremental, fortuitous process of development and collaboration that turns a basic invention into a world-changing innovation. Through dozens of intriguing stories, from the creation of fertiliser and steam engines to wheeled luggage and search engines, he explains how we can preven