Medici Effect: What You Can Learn from Elephants and Epidemics

Contents

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE The Intersection

one The Intersection—Your Best Chance to Innovate

Monkeys and Mind Readers

two The Rise of Intersections

The Sounds of Shakira and the Emotions of Shrek

PART TWO Creating the Medici Effect

three Break Down the Barriers Between Fields

Sea Urchin Lollipops and Darwin’s Finches

four How to Make the Barriers Fall

Heathrow Tunnel and Restaurants Without Food

five Randomly Combine Concepts

Card Games and Sky Rises

six How to Find the Combinations

Meteorite Crashes and Code Breakers

seven Ignite an Explosion of Ideas

Submarines and Tubular Bells

eight How to Capture the Explosion

MacGyver and Boiling Potatoes

PART THREE Making Intersectional Ideas Happen

nine Execute Past Your ...