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Strachey Lecture: How Innovation Works - Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time

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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.
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 itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen, hard to summon into existence to order, yet inevitable and inexorable when it does happen.

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Strachey Lectures
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Matt Ridley
Keywords
innovation
policy
business
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 12/05/2021
Duration: 00:55:02

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