Abstract J. Schumpeter is a key figure, even a seminal one, on technological innovation. Most economists who study technological innovation refer to Schumpeter and his pioneering role in introducing innovation into economic studies. However, despite having brought forth the concept of innovation in economic theory, Schumpeter provided few if any analyses of the process of innovation itself. This paper suggests that the origin of systematic studies on technological innovation owes its existence to the economist W. Rupert Maclaurin from MIT. In the 1940s and 1950s, Maclaurin developed Schumpeter's ideas, analyzing technological innovation as a process composed of several stages or steps, and proposed a theory of technological innovation, later called the linear model of innovation. The paper also argues that Maclaurin constructed one of the first taxonomies for measuring technological innovation.
...More
Book
Phelps, Edmund S.;
(2013)
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
(/isis/citation/CBB001213139/)
Article
Godin, Benoît;
(2012)
“Innovation Studies”: The Invention of a Specialty
(/isis/citation/CBB001211966/)
Book
Rose, Mark H.;
Seely, Bruce Edsall;
Barrett, Paul F.;
(2006)
The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB000772764/)
Book
Schot, J. W.;
Rip, Arie;
Lintsen, Harry;
(2010)
Technology and the Making of the Netherlands: The Age of Contested Modernization, 1890--1970
(/isis/citation/CBB001031315/)
Book
Imogen Sophie Kristin Wade;
(2022)
Innovation and Modernization in Contemporary Russia: Science Towns, Technology Parks and Very Limited Success
(/isis/citation/CBB499360974/)
Article
Carroll Pursell;
(2011)
The American Patent Agency: The Embedded 'Lone Inventor' in American History
(/isis/citation/CBB562500065/)
Book
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.;
Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee;
(2007)
Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to the Present
(/isis/citation/CBB000774188/)
Chapter
Alessandro Nuvolari;
Michelangelo Vasta;
(2014)
The Italian National Innovation System: A Long-term Perspective, 1861-2011
(/isis/citation/CBB473110507/)
Book
Žmolek, Michael Andrew;
(2013)
Rethinking the Industrial Revolution: Five Centuries of Transition from Agrarian to Industrial Capitalism in England
(/isis/citation/CBB001213991/)
Chapter
Tedeschi, Paolo;
(2011)
Notes on the Marshall Plan in Lombardy. Technological Innovation and Vocational Training
(/isis/citation/CBB001201965/)
Article
Fridenson, Patrick;
(2012)
L’histoire de l’incertitude technique et ses enjeux
(/isis/citation/CBB001200688/)
Book
Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane;
Garcon, Anne-Francoise;
(2003)
Les chemins de la nouveauté: innover, inventer au regard de l'histoire
(/isis/citation/CBB000551042/)
Article
Wicken, Olaf;
(1984)
Teknologisk spionasje - en historié om et svensk-norsk industrielt "samarbejd"; (Technological espionage - a story of a Swedish-Norwegian industrial "collaboration")
(/isis/citation/CBB805068974/)
Article
Janne M. Korhonen;
(April 2018)
Tolerating the Intolerable: Flash Smelting of Copper and the Construction of Technological Constraints
(/isis/citation/CBB730743801/)
Article
Godin, Benoît;
(2010)
Innovation without the Word: William F. Ogburn's Contribution to the Study of Technological Innovation
(/isis/citation/CBB001034980/)
Article
Hallion, Richard P.;
(Spring 2004)
Remembering the Legacy: Highlights of the First 100 Years of Aviation
(/isis/citation/CBB282987011/)
Article
Benoît Godin;
(July 2016)
Technological Innovation: On the Origins and Development of an Inclusive Concept
(/isis/citation/CBB180834250/)
Book
Field, Alexander J;
(2011)
A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
(/isis/citation/CBB001421343/)
Book
Fraunholz, Uwe;
Hänseroth, Thomas;
(2012)
Ungleiche Pfade? Innovationskulturen im deutsch-deutschen Vergleich
(/isis/citation/CBB001421007/)
Article
Slobodian, Quinn;
(2015)
How to See the World Economy: Statistics, Maps, and Schumpeter's Camera in the First Age of Globalization
(/isis/citation/CBB001422665/)
Be the first to comment!