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To solve 21st-century problems, innovators need the freedom to experiment without the burden of overregulation and the abuse of intellectual property rights by vested interests My article for the Wall Street Journal Saturday Essay, adapted from How Innovation Works which is available Tuesday, the 19th of May: The Covid-19 pandemic reveals that far from living in an […]

Last week, I did an AMA with a community called whatshouldireadnext.com and the answers are now available on their blog. I answered 23 questions in total from their community and staff as well as a few from social media, discussing the usual topics of innovation and the pandemic, but also some new ones like time […]

US and Canada Only, Details Below With the North America release of How Innovation Works just one week away, I am unable to travel to the US to promote the book as I would normally do. So my team and I are trying to come up with creative ways to promote the book while also […]

Now Coming 25th June Because of the global coronavirus crisis, I have agreed with my publisher’s request to delay publication of the UK edition of my new book How Innovation Works from 14 May till 25 June. The US edition will be published on 19 May as planned, because printing has already begun. The book […]

Coming 14th May and 19th May and Available to Pre-Order My next book How Innovation Works will be published on 14th May in the United Kingdom and 19th May in the United States and Canada. It’s available for pre-order now. While it has been searchable on booksellers’ websites for a few months, and teased here […]

I visited reddit’s r/IAmA community Wednesday to answer your questions. Here are some highlights. Can you briefly summarise your position on climate change? Yes, though it’s not an issue I am focusing on much at the moment. My view is summarised in a lecture I gave in 2016 called Global Warming versus Global Greening. I’ve covered […]

“An enthusiastic history of human technical innovation” From the Kirkus review of How Innovation Works: Throughout the book, the author delivers fascinating histories of technology that we take for granted. Many hands contributed to the developments of the steam engine, automobile, and computer. Ridley makes a convincing case that obsessive trial and error works better […]