In historical perspective, both the nature of and arrangements for the generation of engineering knowledge have evolved over the past 150 years. We examine the historical development of the search for ‘useful knowledge’ in agriculture, aeronautics and chemical engineering during the first...

The most persistent theme of Nathan Rosenberg’s work is a concern with the emergence and diffusion of economic ideas. Bringing together Professor Rosenberg’s many contributions to the history of economic thought, this volume offers a series of important insights on how economics itself...

The central concern of this paper is to show that medical innovations have depended heavily on breaking down barriers that have long prevailed in the academic world, in the form of disciplinary boundaries that have coalesced into separate departments; to be specific, some of the biggest...