Where Good Ideas Come From

The Natural History of Innovation

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Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From (2011, Penguin Books, Limited)

326 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2011 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-14-103340-2
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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.

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  • Creative thinking