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Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power
Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001
The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4 th or 5 th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704737
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The Dynamics of the Transfer and Renewal of Patents
Serrano, Carlos J. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006
This paper explores a new dataset of transfers of patents recorded at the United States Patent and Trademark Office …. The aim of the paper is twofold. First, a number of patterns are presented. For instance, the probability of a patent …. Second, the paper extends Pakes and Schankerman\\'s patent renewal framework in order to develop a model of the transfer and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827263
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Management Matters
Alexopoulos, Michelle; Tombe, Trevor - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2010
New indications of managerial innovations are created and then used to show that changes in organizational technologies are an important source of economic growth. Specifically, the analysis demonstrates that, first, in response to a positive managerial technology shock, output, productivity and...
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