Matt Ridley describes the processes and preconditions of innovation. Follow @IdeasHavingSexx on twitter.Today’s book: How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom.More books by Matt.Matt’s twitter and website.Matt’s recommendations: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, and The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Matt’s Ted Talk: When Ideas Have Sex.