
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


What's the difference between invention and innovation? Could it be that innovation--the process of making a breakthrough invention available, affordable, and reliable--is actually the hard part? In this week's EconTalk episode, author Matt Ridley talks about his book How Innovation Works with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Ridley argues that we give too much credit to inventors and not enough to innovators--those who refine and improve an invention to make it valuable to users. Along the way, he emphasizes the power of trial and error and the importance of permissionless innovation.
By Russ Roberts4.7
41934,193 ratings
What's the difference between invention and innovation? Could it be that innovation--the process of making a breakthrough invention available, affordable, and reliable--is actually the hard part? In this week's EconTalk episode, author Matt Ridley talks about his book How Innovation Works with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Ridley argues that we give too much credit to inventors and not enough to innovators--those who refine and improve an invention to make it valuable to users. Along the way, he emphasizes the power of trial and error and the importance of permissionless innovation.

967 Listeners

2,442 Listeners

2,289 Listeners

384 Listeners

1,512 Listeners

77 Listeners

989 Listeners

901 Listeners

479 Listeners

22 Listeners

6,590 Listeners

130 Listeners

2,031 Listeners

31 Listeners

729 Listeners

689 Listeners

502 Listeners

831 Listeners

8,756 Listeners

149 Listeners

96 Listeners