# How Innovation Works
Ridley, Matt. How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom. Harper, 2020.
# Backlinks
- Use of innovations often precedes understanding
- How Innovation Works (p. 55).
- How Innovation Works (p. 282).
- The post-its discovery was serendipitous
- How Innovation Works (p. 248).
- Characteristics of resistance to innovation
- How Innovation Works (p. 327).
- Fosbury flop was discovered out of trial and errors
- How Innovation Works (p. 254).
- 10,000 ways that don't work
- How Innovation Works (p. 253).
- What is innovation?
- How Innovation Works (p. 4).
- GPS were repurposed from the military
- How Innovation Works (p. 262).
- Edison and team tested 6,000 filaments to perfect light bulb
- How Innovation Works (p. 253).
- Innovation involves trial and errors
- How Innovation Works (p. 253).
- Amara’s law
- How Innovation Works (p. 261)
- Characteristics of innovators
- How Innovation Works (p. 253).
- How Innovation Works (p. 253).
- Google X Monkey-first approach
- How Innovation Works (p. 308).
- Innovation prefers fragmented governance
- How Innovation Works (p. 264).
- Penicillin's discovery was serendipitous
- How Innovation Works (p. 67).
- The failure to ban coffee
- How Innovation Works (p. 325).
- The word algorithm was derived from the name Al’Khwarizmi
- How Innovation Works (p. 152).
- The word serendipity came from a Persian fairy tale
- How Innovation Works (p. 247).
- Two innovation tests
- How Innovation Works (p. 287).
- Wheeled baggage was ready before the world was ready
- How Innovation Works (pp. 170-172).