Where Good Ideas Come From

By Steven Johnson

Categories: Business & Money

Steven Johnson asks where good ideas come from and what kinds of environments make innovation more likely. Johnson identifies seven patterns behind innovation, including the adjacent possible, liquid networks, the slow hunch, serendipity, error, exaptation and platforms, and traces them across history and disciplines, from Darwin and Freud to Google and Apple. He argues that ideas grow out of connection and collaboration more often than from lone flashes of genius.

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