Nuvolari, Alessandro; Tartari, Valentina; Tranchero, Matteo - 2020
for all patents granted in England in the period 1700-1850. Our findings indicate that macroinventions did not exhibit any … macroinventions were characterized by a labor-saving bias and were mostly introduced by professional engineers. These results suggest … that Allen's and Mokyr's views of macroinventions, rather than conflicting, should be regarded as complementary. …