“Innovation happens not within but between brains.” | Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley’s thorough analysis of innovations in over multiple millennia make it clear that the “great man” theory is one we’ve created out of convenience and due (more recently) to intellectual property law.
Innovation has consistently arrived because of humans who chose to build on the work of their rivals and predecessors and combine existing ideas in interesting ways.
Not within but between brains.
