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Beschreibung
Breakthroughs aren't random. They're designed.

In Serendipity: It Doesn't Happen by Accident, David Cleevely - telecoms pioneer, deep tech investor, and architect of the Cambridge tech cluster - shows how the world's most successful ideas often emerge not from rigid plans, but from well-designed networks, environments, and a willingness to embrace the unexpected.

This book reveals how to build those conditions deliberately - whether you're leading a business, shaping public policy, or trying to create spaces where innovation can thrive. Drawing on complexity science, network theory, and decades of experience founding and funding over 60 companies - including the billion-dollar biotech firm Abcam, launched after a single dinner conversation - Cleevely offers a framework for making serendipity not just possible, but probable.

From 18th-century Birmingham to modern-day Cambridge, Silicon Valley, and Shenzhen, he explains how great innovation ecosystems operate - and why many institutions suppress the very dynamics that make discovery likely. You'll explore the "three-step rule" behind breakthrough environments, uncover why digital platforms can unintentionally reduce serendipity, and learn how a little structured inefficiency may be the secret to real progress.

Whether you're designing a new organisation, reforming an institution, building a startup - or simply trying to make better use of your own time and talent - Serendipity offers a fresh and practical way of thinking about innovation in a world that needs it more than ever.
Breakthroughs aren't random. They're designed.

In Serendipity: It Doesn't Happen by Accident, David Cleevely - telecoms pioneer, deep tech investor, and architect of the Cambridge tech cluster - shows how the world's most successful ideas often emerge not from rigid plans, but from well-designed networks, environments, and a willingness to embrace the unexpected.

This book reveals how to build those conditions deliberately - whether you're leading a business, shaping public policy, or trying to create spaces where innovation can thrive. Drawing on complexity science, network theory, and decades of experience founding and funding over 60 companies - including the billion-dollar biotech firm Abcam, launched after a single dinner conversation - Cleevely offers a framework for making serendipity not just possible, but probable.

From 18th-century Birmingham to modern-day Cambridge, Silicon Valley, and Shenzhen, he explains how great innovation ecosystems operate - and why many institutions suppress the very dynamics that make discovery likely. You'll explore the "three-step rule" behind breakthrough environments, uncover why digital platforms can unintentionally reduce serendipity, and learn how a little structured inefficiency may be the secret to real progress.

Whether you're designing a new organisation, reforming an institution, building a startup - or simply trying to make better use of your own time and talent - Serendipity offers a fresh and practical way of thinking about innovation in a world that needs it more than ever.
Über den Autor
Dr David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and adviser to government on technology and innovation policy. He has founded or helped grow over 60 companies, including Abcam (sold for $6 billion), Analysys, Raspberry Pi, Focal Point Positioning, and Chemify. A key figure in building the Cambridge tech cluster, he co-founded Cambridge Angels, Cambridge Network, the Centre for Science and Policy, and Cambridge [...] has been recognised with a CBE and honorary doctorates for his services to education, technology, and innovation. He lives in Cambridge, where serendipity often strikes while cycling across town or during spontaneous conversations at college gatherings - still creating the conditions for the next great idea.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781068439230
ISBN-10: 1068439238
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Cleevely, David
Hersteller: C&P
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 222 x 145 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: David Cleevely
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.06.2025
Gewicht: 0,606 kg
Artikel-ID: 133586129

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