Braginskij, Sergej V. - 2015 - This draft: May 2015
The diffusion of technological knowledge is key to industry growth. But not all knowledge is created equal. I use a … nanoeconomic approach to examine knowledge-diffusion based growth in the Meiji-era Japanese cotton spinning industry, which enjoyed … remarkable success after a decade of initial failure. By tracing sources of technological knowledge to individual engineers, I …