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The Pre-Schumpeterian Concept of Innovation: Friedrich List and Two Pioneer Contemporaries

In: Science, Technology and Innovation in the History of Economic Thought

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  • Pablo José Martínez Rojo

    (Complutense University of Madrid)

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Since the late 1980s of the twentieth century, much attention has been devoted to the economy of Innovation and Technological Change, especially to the concept of “National Innovation Systems.” This concept, even despite the growing trend of globalization in recent decades, has remained robust and has even expanded its scope, including both geographical and sector-specific areas. The National Innovation System is not only a concept, but a research field that helps to explain and understand the level of development and the state of national production systems, as well as their evolution over time. This chapter studies the pre-Schumpeterian evolution of the concept of National Innovation Systems and finds contributions in the context of the transition between the First and Second Industrial Revolutions in authors who show interest in the economic transformation that these revolutions were bringing to Europe. In particular, it stresses the contributions of Friedrich List, and the less known of Charles Babbage and Johann Heinrich Von Thünen.

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  • Pablo José Martínez Rojo, 2023. "The Pre-Schumpeterian Concept of Innovation: Friedrich List and Two Pioneer Contemporaries," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Estrella Trincado Aznar & Fernando López Castellano (ed.), Science, Technology and Innovation in the History of Economic Thought, chapter 0, pages 59-86, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-031-40139-8_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40139-8_4
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