Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … British patent system prior to its reform in 1852 was cumbersome and expensive. Whether it facilitated or delayed the … Industrial Revolution is hotly debated. This paper's contribution is to examine the incentives to patent, and the characteristics …

to patent. Our study records how brewery innovators pursued a wide variety of highly distinct appropriability strategies …This paper examines the relationship between patents, appropriability strategies and market for technologies in the … period was characterized both by a self-aware culture of rapid technological innovation, and by a remarkably low propensity …