Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920

Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920

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Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920

The growth of the U.S. economy over the nineteenth century was characterized by a sharp acceleration in the rate of inventive activity and a dramatic rise in the relative importance of highly specialized inventors as generators of new technological knowledge.

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