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'Chariots of Fire': The Evolution of Tank Technology, 1915-1945 0 0 0 140 1 6 15 1,232
'Unravelling the Duty': Lean�s Engine Reporter and Cornish Steam Engineering 0 0 0 2 0 4 12 61
Bennet Woodcroft and the Value of English Patents, 1617-1841 0 0 0 90 0 4 13 323
British-French technology transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791-1844): evidence from patent data 0 0 0 89 0 12 27 165
Cognition, Culture, and State Capacity: Age-Heaping in XIX Century Italy 0 0 0 22 0 2 13 55
Collective Invention during the British Industrial Revolution The Case of the Cornish Pumping Engine 0 1 2 347 0 5 25 6,816
Collective Invention during the British Industrial Revolution: The Case of the Cornish Pumping Engine 0 0 0 5 0 3 12 122
Collective invention during the British Industrial Revolution: the case of the Cornish pumping engine 0 0 0 14 2 7 21 152
Diffusing New Technology without Dissipating Rents: Some Historical Case Studies of Knwoledge Sharing 0 0 0 67 1 5 13 81
Digitalization, copyright and innovation in the creative industries: an agent-based model 0 0 1 65 0 2 12 94
Economic Growth in England, 1250-1850: Some New Estimates Using a Demand Side Approach 0 0 2 71 2 4 21 272
Entropy Statistics as a Framework to Analyse Technological Evolution 0 0 0 20 1 7 30 111
Habakkuk revisited: A history friendly model of "American and British technology in the nineteenth century" 0 0 0 129 0 0 7 240
Human Capital Formation during the First Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Use of Steam Engines 0 0 2 174 0 3 20 301
Human Capital Formation during the First Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Use of Steam Engines 0 0 3 127 2 8 22 256
Independent invention in Italy during the Liberal Age, 1861-1913 0 0 0 9 0 5 11 47
Inequality in Pre-Industrial Europe (1260-1850): New Evidence from the Labour Share 0 0 0 77 1 2 7 66
Inequality in pre-industrial Europe (1260-1850): new evidence from the labour share 0 0 1 53 0 2 13 69
Innovation, localized externalities, and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850 0 0 5 51 1 3 20 59
Institutions Are neither Autistic Maximizers nor Flocks of Birds: Self-organization, Power, and Learning in Human Organizations 0 0 1 123 1 2 8 143
Intellectual Property Protection in Plant Varieties. A New Worldwide Index (1961-2011) 0 0 0 57 0 4 16 205
Intellectual property rights and agricultural development: Evidence from a worldwide index of IPRs in agriculture (1961-2018) 0 0 2 41 1 8 18 332
Intellectual property rights and agricultural development: evidence from a worldwide index of IPRS in agriculture (1961-2018) 0 0 0 9 0 1 7 38
Inventive Activities, Patents and Early Industrialization. A Synthesis of Research Issues 0 0 1 149 1 2 15 597
Inventors, Patents and Inventive Activities in the English Brewing Industry, 1634-1850 0 0 1 197 2 4 9 349
Italy's Long-Term Economic Performance: GDP Estimates from 1300 to 1861 1 4 33 83 7 27 111 193
Knowledge Sharing among Inventors: Some Historical Perspectives 0 0 0 163 2 4 15 287
L’Histoire Immobile? A Reappraisal of French Economic Growth using the Demand-Side Approach, 1280-1850 0 0 2 65 1 9 19 132
Mapping Technological Trajectories as Patent Citation Networks. An application to Data Communication Standards 1 2 6 252 4 18 26 802
Mr Woodcroft and the value of English patents of invention, 1617-1852 0 0 0 2 0 1 11 29
Open source software development: some historical perspectives 0 0 0 3 1 4 15 64
Patents and Industrialization: An Historical Overview of the British Case, 1624-1907 w 1 1 2 112 1 4 10 605
Patterns of Innovation during the Industrial Revolution: a Reappraisal using a Composite Indicator of Patent Quality 0 0 0 63 0 1 13 94
Patterns of innovation during the industrial revolution: a reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality 0 0 0 69 0 1 5 103
Reassessing patent propensity: evidence from a data-set of R&D awards 1977-2004 0 0 6 686 0 10 49 3,375
Rethinking Age-Heaping. A Cautionary Tale from Nineteenth Century Italy 0 0 0 72 5 9 31 169
Rethinking Age-heaping, a Cautionary Tale From Nineteenth Century Italy 0 0 0 26 1 9 21 65
Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation and the Sources of Breakthrough Inventions: Evidence from a Data-Set of R&D Awards 0 0 1 87 1 6 20 396
THE ORIGINS OF THE ITALIAN REGIONAL DIVIDE: EVIDENCE FROM REAL WAGES, 1861-1913 0 1 3 140 2 9 29 200
Technical Change, Non-Tariff Barriers, and the Development of the Italian Locomotive Industry, 1850-1913 0 0 0 77 0 4 12 73
Technical Change, Non-Tariff Barriers, and the Development of the Italian Locomotive Industry, 1850-1913 0 1 1 47 0 4 17 93
Technical Change, Non-Tariff Trade Barriers and the Development of the Italian Locomotives Industry, 1850-1913 0 0 0 101 0 2 11 166
Technical progress and structural change: a long-term view 0 0 4 113 3 19 36 192
Technical progress and structural change: a long-term view 0 0 0 100 0 8 19 332
Technological Revolutions and Economic Growth: The “Age of Steam” Reconsidered 0 0 0 119 0 3 15 443
Technological Revolutions and Economic Growth:The �Age of Steam� Reconsidered 0 0 0 7 0 1 10 78
The 'machine breakers' and the industrial revolution 0 0 0 11 0 1 21 190
The Diffusion of the Steam Engine in Eighteenth-Century Britain 0 0 0 10 0 2 13 91
The Early Development of the Steam Engine: An Evolutionary Interpretation using Complexity Theory 0 0 0 15 1 5 24 135
The Early Diffusion of the Steam Engine in Britain, 1700-1800. A Reappraisal 0 0 2 183 0 2 22 604
The Ghost in the Attic? The Italian National Innovation System in Historical Perspective, 1861-2011 0 0 1 125 0 10 26 333
The Nature of Inventive Activities: Evidence from a Data-Set of R&D Awards 0 0 0 43 0 2 7 207
The Origins of the Italian Regional Divide: Evidence from Real Wages, 1861-1913 0 0 3 154 1 9 25 312
The geography of innovation in Italy, 1861-1913: evidence from patent data 0 0 1 7 0 0 7 43
The geography of innovation in Italy, 1861-1913: evidence from patent data 0 0 0 98 0 6 18 140
Traditional versus heterodox motives for academic patenting: evidence from the netherlands 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 17
Traditional versus heterodox motives for academic patenting: evidence from the netherlands 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 14
What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur? Historical Evidence from Italy (XIX-XX Centuries) 0 0 0 93 0 3 14 165
‘Chariots of Fire’:The Evolution of Tank Technology, 1915-1945 0 0 0 3 1 4 11 58
‘The ingenious crowd': a critical prosopography of British Inventors, 1650-1850 0 0 0 9 0 1 5 34
Total Working Papers 3 10 86 5,268 47 305 1,085 22,420


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A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium – By Robert Friedel 0 0 0 39 0 2 8 286
Aashish Velkar, Markets and measurements in nineteenth-century Britain ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xv + 362. 14 figs. 13 tabs. ISBN 9781107023338 Hbk. £60) 0 0 0 1 1 1 6 28
Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber 0 0 0 1 0 2 7 13
An empirical study on the determinants of essential patent claims in compatibility standards 0 0 0 51 0 1 10 230
B. Zorina Khan, Inventing ideas. Patents, prizes and the knowledge economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+462. 46 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9780190936075 Hbk. £64; ISBN 9780190936082 Pbk. £19.99) 0 0 0 4 0 2 5 15
Bennet Woodcroft and the value of English patents, 1617-1841 0 0 4 72 1 1 15 290
Breakthrough innovations and where to find them 2 3 6 31 4 13 32 111
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data 0 1 1 7 2 5 9 25
Collective invention during the British Industrial Revolution: the case of the Cornish pumping engine 0 0 0 72 0 2 12 545
Correction to: Industry 4.0: revolution or hype? Reassessing recent technological trends and their impact on labour 0 0 1 4 0 7 17 34
Diffusing new technology without dissipating rents: some historical case studies of knowledge sharing 0 1 2 5 0 3 15 47
Digital piracy in times of Covid-19 0 0 0 0 1 10 18 18
Douglass C. North (1920–2015) 0 0 0 11 0 1 4 67
Economic Growth in England, 1250-1850: Some New Estimates Using a Demand Side Approach 0 1 3 53 1 4 14 148
Editor's Choice Institutional change and productivity growth in China’s manufacturing: the microeconomics of knowledge accumulation and "creative restructuring" 0 0 0 8 0 3 8 54
Human Capital Formation During the First Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the use of Steam Engines 0 0 6 62 0 7 47 249
Independent invention in Italy during the Liberal Age, 1861–1913 0 0 0 10 1 5 14 69
Industry 4.0: revolution or hype? Reassessing recent technological trends and their impact on labour 1 2 6 52 2 8 34 178
Inequality in Pre‐Industrial Europe (1260–1850): New Evidence From the Labor Share 0 0 3 8 1 7 21 36
Innovation Without Patents. An Introduction 0 0 0 35 0 0 3 88
Innovation and technological diffusion: An economic history of early steam engines 0 0 0 7 1 2 5 26
Institutions and economic change: some notes on self-organization, power and learning in human organizations 0 0 0 21 0 1 18 104
Intellectual Property Rights and Agricultural Development: Evidence from a Worldwide Index of IPRs in Agriculture (1961-2018) 0 0 0 8 1 2 13 46
Intellectual property protection in plant varieties: A worldwide index (1961–2011) 0 0 0 38 1 4 11 156
Intellectual property rights and the life science industries: past, present and future – By Graham Dutfield 0 0 0 15 0 2 7 59
Introduction to the Journal of Evolutionary Economics special issue: the product characteristics approach to innovation studies 0 0 0 55 1 3 11 191
Introduction: Chris Freeman’s “History, Co-Evolution and Economic Growth”: an affectionate reappraisal 1 1 5 12 1 3 15 26
Inventive Activities, Patents and Early Industrialisation: A Synthesis of Research Issues 1 1 2 28 1 7 16 103
Inventors, Patents, and Inventive Activities in the English Brewing Industry, 1634–1850 0 0 0 3 0 2 7 20
Looking Backward, Moving Forward 0 0 0 12 0 4 8 47
L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850 1 3 7 25 4 9 28 76
Mapping technological trajectories as patent citation networks. An application to data communication standards 0 1 4 119 0 5 35 376
Only one way to skin a cat? Heterogeneity and equifinality in European national innovation systems 0 0 0 16 1 6 16 96
Patenting the Risorgimento: Economic Integration and the Formation of the Italian Patent System (1855–1872) 0 1 1 9 1 4 12 55
Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: A reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality 0 0 3 14 0 1 21 66
Profiting from innovation: Evidence from a survey of Queen's Awards winners 0 0 0 4 0 4 10 41
Rails of Progress? Exploring the nexus between railroad access and innovation in Italy (19th-20th centuries) 0 1 1 1 1 4 10 10
Reassessing patent propensity: Evidence from a dataset of R&D awards, 1977–2004 0 0 3 49 0 4 36 221
Regimes reloaded! A reappraisal of Schumpeterian patterns of innovation, 1977–2011 0 1 2 5 0 5 25 35
Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth‐century Italy 0 0 0 3 0 2 8 17
Schumpeterian patterns of innovation and the sources of breakthrough inventions: evidence from a data-set of R&D awards 0 1 1 30 0 4 10 140
Searching for the origins of Italy's economic decline 0 0 0 15 2 7 10 73
Stefano Fenoaltea (1943-2020) 0 0 0 2 1 2 14 22
Technical Change, Non-Tariff Barriers, and the Development of the Italian Locomotive Industry, 1850–1913 0 0 0 10 1 4 10 57
Technical choice, innovation, and British steam engineering, 1800–501 0 0 0 24 0 6 15 92
The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770–1850. ByGillian Cookson. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2018. ix + 324 pp. Maps, illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, appendix, notes, index. Paper, $25.95. ISBN: 978-1-78327-276-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 19
The Ghost in the Attic? The Italian National Innovation System in Historical Perspective, 1861–2011 0 0 0 6 0 3 12 49
The Origins of the Italian Regional Divide: Evidence from Real Wages, 1861–1913 0 0 3 17 0 3 19 66
The early development of the steam engine: an evolutionary interpretation using complexity theory 0 0 0 0 0 5 14 1,636
The early diffusion of the steam engine in Britain, 1700–1800: a reappraisal 0 0 0 50 0 1 11 279
The geography of innovation in Italy, 1861–1913: evidence from patent data 0 0 1 14 0 4 13 79
The race between the snail and the tortoise: skill premium and early industrialization in Italy (1861–1913) 0 1 3 22 2 8 25 89
The race between the snail and the tortoise: skill premium and early industrialization in Italy (1861–1913) 0 0 0 7 9 12 19 40
The rise and decline of Dutch technological leadership: technology, economy and culture in the Netherlands, 1350–1800 – By Karel Davids 0 0 0 33 0 2 7 211
Traditional Versus Heterodox Motives for Academic Patenting: Evidence from the Netherlands 0 0 0 6 2 3 8 57
What makes a successful (and famous) entrepreneur? Historical evidence from Italy (XIX-XX centuries) 0 0 0 4 3 10 22 73
‘Chariots of fire’: the evolution of tank technology, 1915–1945 0 0 1 28 1 9 19 280
‘Glorious Times’: The Emergence of Mechanical Engineering in Early Industrial Britain, c. 1700-1850 1 1 3 64 3 8 22 204
Total Journal Articles 7 20 72 1,303 51 249 868 7,768


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Entropy statistics as a framework to analyse technological evolution 0 0 0 16 0 4 15 89
Institutions are neither autistic maximizers nor flocks of birds: self-organization, power and learning in human organizations 0 0 1 5 0 3 11 46
Schumpeterian Patterns of Innovation and the Sources of Breakthrough Inventions: Evidence from a Data-set of R&D Awards 0 0 0 0 1 4 12 23
The diffusion of the steam engine in eighteenth-century Britain 0 1 1 13 0 1 17 52
Total Chapters 0 1 2 34 1 12 55 210


Statistics updated 2026-06-04