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Collective invention during the British Industrial Revolution: the case of the Cornish pumping engine
Authors:Nuvolari  Alessandro
Institution:Address for correspondence: Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (ECIS), Faculty of Technology Management, TEMA 1.14, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands email: a.nuvolari{at}tm.tue.nl
Abstract:This paper argues that what Robert Allen has termed collectiveinvention settings (that is, settings in which competing firmsshare technological knowledge) were a crucial source of innovationduring the early phases of industrialisation. Until now thishas been very little considered in the literature, which hasfocused on the patent system as the main institutional arrangementdriving the rate of innovation. The paper presents one of thesecollective invention settings, the Cornish mining district,in detail. It studies the specific economic and technical circumstancesthat led to the emergence of this collective invention settingand analyses its consequences on the rate of technological innovation.
Keywords:Incremental innovation  Patents  Collective invention  Steam engines
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