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Patent costs and the value of inventions : explaining patenting behaviour between England, Ireland and Scotland, 1617-1852

Billington, Stephen D. - 2018

Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … Industrial Revolution is hotly debated. This paper's contribution is to examine the incentives to patent, and the characteristics … of patentees, by observing the entire population of British patents granted up to the patent reforms of 1852. I find …

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"War, what is it good for?" : the industrial revolution!

Billington, Stephen D. - 2018

Did the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars contribute to the Industrial Revolution? Recent scholarship argues warfare was an important factor in explaining Britain's industrialisation, by encouraging the invention and diffusion of key technologies with military applications. I re-examine...

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Institutions and Technological Innovation During Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

Sokoloff, Kenneth L.; Khan, B. Zorina - 2021

Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they … enforce tradable assets in new technological knowledge. By facilitating access to such markets in technology, patents enhanced … their technological creativity, and their response to such incentives increased overall technological progress. For this …

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Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: a reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality

Nuvolari, Alessandro; Tartari, Valentina; Tranchero, Matteo - 2020

for all patents granted in England in the period 1700-1850. Our findings indicate that macroinventions did not exhibit any …

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Amateur or Professional? A New Look at 19th Century Patentees in Norway

Basberg, Bjørn - 2012

The paper analyses Norwegian 19th century patentees. A special focus is on the affiliation or relationship of the patentees to the manufacturing industries, business and the wider economy. A main question is whether the inventors were what might be called ‘amateurs' working independently, or...

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