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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 …
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This paper uses the adoption and invention of the spinning jenny as a test case to understand why the industrial revolution occurred in Britain in the eighteenth century rather than in France or India.  It is shown that wages were much higher relative to capital prices in Britain than in other...
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-1820: the introduction of a new proviso into British patents compelling inventors to supply the military, and also attracting …
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We study the determinants of the spatial distribution of patent inventors at the county level for Great Britain between 1700-1850. Our empirical analysis rests on the localization model by Bottazzi et al. (2007) and on the related estimation procedure by Bottazzi and Gragnolati (2015). Such an...
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-1820: the introduction of a new proviso into British patents compelling inventors to supply the military, and also attracting …
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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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The primary aim of this paper is to explore the significance of the emergence and growth of mechanical engineering as a distinct industrial activity in early industrial Britain. The paper provides a survey of the most important interpretations put forward concerning the role of mechanical...
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We study the determinants of the spatial distribution of patent inventors at the county level for Great Britain between 1700-1850. Our empirical analysis rests on the localization model by Bottazzi et al. (2007) and on the related estimation procedure by Bottazzi and Gragnolati (2015). Such an...
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