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Patenting in England, Scotland and Ireland during the Industrial Revolution, 1700–1852
Bottomley, Sean - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 54 (2014), pp. 48-63
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Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor : The Reforging of Western Civilization and the Transformation of Everyday Life
Bowden, Bradley - 2022
2: Freedom, Slavery and The Rise of an Industrialized Western Civilization -- Chapter 6: Time, Scale and Understandings … of Western Civilization -- chapter 7: What is Freedom? What is Slavery? -- Chapter 8: Freedom, Democracy and … Individualism: Cause of Business Success or Mere Correlation? -- Chapter 9: Slavery and its Legacies -- Part 3: Global …
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Innovation, localized externalities, and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850
Gragnolati, Ugo M.; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2023
externalities among patent inventors went from being nearly absent in the early phases of industrialization to becoming a major …
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The rise of the engineer : inventing the professional inventor during the industrial revolution
Hanlon, W. Walker - 2022
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Assessing the role of steam power in the first industrial revolution : the early work of Nick von Tunzelmann
Bruland, Kristine; Smith, Keith - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 42 (2013) 10, pp. 1716-1723
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Innovation networks in the industrial revolution
Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - 2024
How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...
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The rate and direction of invention in the British Industrial Revolution : incentives and institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf; Mokyr, Joel - 2011
"During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But why was Britain the technological leader? We argue that one hitherto little recognized British advantage was the supply of highly skilled, mechanically able craftsmen who were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009582
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The rate and direction of invention in the British Industrial Revolution : incentives and institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf R.; Mokyr, Joel - In: The rate and direction of inventive activity revisited, (pp. 443-479). 2012
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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2014
During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But why was Britain the technological leader? We argue that one hitherto little recognized British advantage was the supply of highly skilled, mechanically able craftsmen who were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068131
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The Singularity of Western Innovation : The Language Nexus
Dudley, Leonard - 2017
This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397309