How innovation works / (Record no. 75078)
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| fixed length control field | 01727nam a22001937a 4500 |
| 020 ## - ISBN | |
| ISBN | 9780008334819 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | T 173.8 R53 2020. |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ridley, Matt |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | How innovation works / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | by Matt Ridley. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | 4th Estate, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2020. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent/Page number | 422 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | text |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. 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 still cannot be modelled 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 - from steam engines to search engines - how they started and why they succeeded or failed |
| 526 ## - STUDY PROGRAM INFORMATION NOTE | |
| Program name | Social change |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economic development. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social change. |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Technological innovations. |
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| Item type | Books |
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| Library of Congress Classification | General Circulation | College Library | College Library | General Circulation Section | 08/22/2023 | Donation from JHS Library | T 173.8 R53 2020. | C010068 | 08/22/2023 | 08/22/2023 | Books |