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Where do we go from here? : market access and regional development in Italy (1871 - 1911)

Missiaia, Anna - 2015

Italy has been characterized, throughout its history as a unified country, by large regional differentials in the levels of income, industrialization and socio-economic development. This paper aims at testing the New Economic Geography hypothesis on the role of market access in explaining these...

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Inventors, patents and invenctive activities in the English brewing industry, 1634 - 1850

Nuvolari, Alessandro; Summer, James - 2012

This paper examines the relationship between patents, appropriability strategies and market for technologies in the English brewing industry before 1850. Previous research has pointed to the apparent oddity that large-scale brewing in this period was characterized both by a self-aware culture of...

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The early diffusion of the steam engine in Britain, 1700-1800 : a reappraisal

Nuvolari, Alessandro; Verspagen, Bart; Von Tunzelmann, G. N. - 2011

We examine the diffusion of steam technology across British counties during the eighteenth century. First, we provide … order to assess the relative importance of the variables shaping the diffusion of steam power technology, we study the …

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Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: a reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality

Nuvolari, Alessandro; Tartari, Valentina; Tranchero, Matteo - 2020

The distinction between macro- and microinventions is at the core of recent debates on the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the empirical testing of this notion has remained elusive. We address this issue by introducing a new quality indicator for all patents granted in England in the period...

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Innovation, localized externalities, and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850

Gragnolati, Ugo M.; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2023

We study the determinants of the spatial distribution of patent inventors at the county level for Great Britain between 1700-1850. Our empirical analysis rests on the localization model by Bottazzi et al. (2007) and on the related estimation procedure by Bottazzi and Gragnolati (2015). Such an...

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Dimensions of illiteracy : a quantitative and comparative approach from Italy, circa 1815

Martinez, Marco - 2022

This paper quantitatively assesses to what extent signatures in marriage certificates can inform about literacy rates in pre-industrial states. The direct estimates are based on a novel and balanced random sample of marriage certificates for pre-unification Italy in 1815. Such figures are...

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Rethinking age-heaping : a cautionary tale from nineteenth century Italy

A'Hearn, Brian; Delfino, Alexia; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2016

A swelling stream of literature employs age-heaping as an indicator of human capital, more specifically of numeracy. We re-examine this connection in light of evidence drawn from nineteenth century Italy: census data, death records, and direct, qualitative evidence on age-awareness and numeracy....

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Knowing brown and inventing green? : incremental and radical innovative activities in the automotive sector

Mazzei, Julia; Rughi, Tommaso; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2022

The development of low emission vehicles (LEVs) in the automotive sector stands out in the literature as a typical case of technological competition between a dominant design and a set of alternative green technologies. The incremental trajectory of green technologies aimed at improving the...

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Knowledge sharing among inventors : some historical perspectives

Bessen, James; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2011

This chapter documents instances from past centuries where inventors freely shared knowledge of their innovations with other inventors. It is widely believed that such knowledge sharing is a recent development, as in Open Source Software. Our survey shows, instead, that innovators have long...

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Difusing new technology without dissipating rents : some historical case studies of knowledge sharing

Bessen, James; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2017 - This version: November, 2017

inventors' incentives. Each new technology coexisted with an alternative for one or more decades. This allowed inventors to earn … rents while sharing knowledge, attaining major productivity gains. The technology diffusion literature suggests that such … circumstances are common during the early stages of a new technology. …

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