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 …The distinction between macro- and microinventions is at the core of recent debates on the Industrial Revolution. Yet … specific time-clustering, while microinventions were correlated with the economic cycle. In addition, we also find that …