Article ID: CBB599282905

Widespread Enthusiasm: Grassroots Participation and Regional Variation in Early Japanese Patenting, 1885–99 (April 2022)

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Asuka Imaizumi (Author)


Technology and Culture
Volume: 63
Issue: 2
Pages: 377-400


Publication Date: April 2022
Edition Details: Special Issue - Industry in Common: Thinking Globally with Modern Japan
Language: English

Scholarship mainly analyzes patent systems from a technological innovation perspective. This article sheds light on the social significance of patenting activity in modern Japan. Examining a set of patents granted in the initial years of a patenting system that was new to Japan gives nuance to understanding how Japanese society underwent industrialization, including regional differences. Challenging the image of the Japanese as passive recipients of foreign technology, this analysis of Japan's early patent system reveals widespread involvement in the patenting system at every level of society across the country. Patentees used patents proactively to create business opportunities, and the patent system offered urban business owners a new ladder to social and economic success.

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Article Aleksandra Kobiljski (April 2022) The Global Industrial Now. Technology and Culture (pp. 309-325). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Pottage, Alain
Mercelis, Joris
Khan, B. Zorina
Biagioli, Mario
Donges, Alexander
Selgert, Felix
Concepts
Patents
Intellectual property
Inventors and invention
Technological innovation
Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship
Technology and law
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
France
Southern states (U.S.)
Italy
Germany
Europe
Institutions
Confederate States of America. Patent Office
Parke, Davis and Company
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