Article ID: CBB001180619

Collective invention during the British Industrial Revolution: The case of the Cornish pumping engine (2004)

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Description This paper argues that what Robert Allen has termed collective invention settings (that is, settings in which competing firms share technological knowledge) were a crucial source of innovation during the early phases of industrialisation. Until now this has been very little considered in the literature, which has focused on the patent system as the main institutional arrangement driving the rate of innovation. The paper presents one of these collective invention settings, the Cornish mining district, in detail. It studies the specific economic and technical circumstances that led to the emergence of this collective invention setting and analyses its consequences on the rate of technological innovation. (Abstract from: http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/3/347.abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Nuvolari, Alessandro
MacLeod, Christine
Greener, James
Donges, Alexander
Selgert, Felix
Quivik, Fredric
Concepts
Industrial revolution
Steam Engines
Inventors and invention
Patents
Technology transfer
Technology and culture
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Bristol (England)
United States
Germany
Staffordshire (England)
Hamburg (Germany)
Institutions
Chance Brothers and Company
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