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#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation

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I deliberately Talk about innovation rather than invention, because I think we've talked a lot about inventors. About brilliant people who come up with bright ideas. That changed the world. I want to talk about innovation, which is the process by which a bright idea is turned into something practical, reliable, and available.

But affordable. For ordinary people. And that's a long slog. And it's a a lot of hard work and it's often more important, more difficult. Then the process of

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