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

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 347-363

  Nuvolari, Alessandro ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collective invention; Incremental innovation; Patents; Steam engines

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; INNOVATION; MINING INDUSTRY; PUMPING; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

CORNWALL [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2442708758     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/28.3.347     Document Type: Article

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