Article ID: CBB000640029

Know-How, Technologietransfer und die Arcana Artis im Mitteleuropa der Frühen Neuzeit (2005)

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Reith, Reinhold (Author)


Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Volume: 10
Pages: 349--377


Publication Date: 2005
Edition Details: Part of a series on craft secrecy.
Language: German

This article reviews several strategies of technology transfer in early modern Central Europe and will focus especially on transfers between individuals: the transfer of know-how in the context of apprenticeship that became an institutionalized kind of professional education; and the transfer of technology by migration. The essay deals with different evaluations of the effects of technology transfer in the crafts production and will reflect recent discussions of the advantages and disadvantages of the tramping system. The intensive debate over the utility of tramping began in the eighteenth century, especially in the contemporary scientific journals and as a question in academic prize competitions. The discussion stressed all the strategies of transfer. In special workshops -- as in porcelain manufacturing -- the protection of know-how (arcanum) was widespread. While some European states like England in the later eighteenth century tended towards a policy of secrecy, the German territories depended on the acquisition of new technologies, and therefore preferred a policy of openness in technological knowledge

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Authors & Contributors
Rankin, Alisha Michelle
Leong, Elaine Yuen Tien
Klein, Ursula
Davids, Karel A.
Bertucci, Paola
Burghardt, Ivonne
Concepts
Crafts and craftspeople
Secrecy
Technology transfer
Silk and silk industry
Technological innovation
Laboratories
Time Periods
18th century
Early modern
17th century
16th century
19th century
Renaissance
Places
Germany
Europe
England
France
Georgia (U.S.)
Prussia (Germany)
Institutions
Prussian Academy of Sciences
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