Invention Machines: How Control Instruments and Information Technologies Drove Global Technologigal Progress over a Century of Invention
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Keywords
Innovation; Patents; Electrical instruments; Instruments; Information technology;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BIG-2017-09-03 (Big Data)
- NEP-HIS-2017-09-03 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-ICT-2017-09-03 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-INO-2017-09-03 (Innovation)
- NEP-IPR-2017-09-03 (Intellectual Property Rights)
- NEP-PAY-2017-09-03 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
- NEP-TID-2017-09-03 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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