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Amateur or professional? A new look at nineteenth-century patentees in Norway

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The paper analyses Norwegian nineteenth-century patentees. A special focus is on the affiliation or relationship of patentees to the manufacturing industries, business and the wider economy. A central question is whether the inventors were what might be called 'amateurs' working independently or 'professionals' working closer to firms or institutions. The main finding is that even the individual patentees, who comprised the majority of all patentees, had strong associations with industry, and the distinction between 'professionals' and 'amateurs' is not very useful.

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  • Bj�rn L. Basberg, 2015. "Amateur or professional? A new look at nineteenth-century patentees in Norway," Scandinavian Economic History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 63(1), pages 24-44, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:sehrxx:v:63:y:2015:i:1:p:24-44
    DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2014.948047
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    1. Berger, Thor & Prawitz, Erik, 2023. "Inventors among the “Impoverished Sophisticate”," Working Paper Series 1462, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.

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