Loonshots how to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries

"Loonshots is a brilliant and wonderfully entertaining book, an unstoppable read, full of surprises and rich with insight into how people create and nurture things that change the world. It's also an important book. Bahcall, a physicist and biotech entrepreneur, is unfolding the secrets be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bahcall, Safi, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : St. Martin's Press [2019]
Edición:First edition
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991005258439706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • How loonshots won a war
  • The surprising fragility of the loonshot
  • The two types of loonshots: Trippe vs. Crandall
  • Edwin Land and the Moses trap
  • Escaping the Moses trap
  • Phase transitions, I: marriage, forest fires, and terrorists
  • Phase transitions, II: the magic number 150
  • The fourth rule.