Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some … countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries …

"The British Patent System and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1852 presents a fundamental reassessment of the … absence of legislative reform, the British patent system was continually evolving and responding to the needs of an … industrialising economy. Inventors were able to obtain and enforce patent rights with relative ease. This placed Britain in an …