During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But …

Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors … worked in technologies that were more central within the innovation network. We offer a new approach for measuring the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network …

, and the transition to skill-biased technological change. The simulated model tracks British industrialization in the 18th …

-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using …

We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia … industrialization had overlooked. Rather than providing a single explanation of how specific shocks or policies shaped the … industrialization of the region, our argument is that the timing of the industrial take off was linked to initial conditions, while …