B Zorina Khan

Inventing Ideas

Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on original archival research, Inventing Ideas sheds light on the origins of the knowledge economy through empirical analysis of over one hundred thousand inventors and innovations in Britain, France, and the United States during the first and second industrial revolutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 698g
• ISBN-13: 9780190936082
• ISBN-10: 0190936088
• Artikelnr.: 59084401

Autorenporträt

B. Zorina Khan is Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Knowledge, Institutions and Progress
Chapter 2 Trolls and Other Patent Inventions
Chapter 3 Inventing Prizes
Chapter 4 Elites and Useful Knowledge in Britain
Chapter 5 Prestige and Profit: The Royal Society of Arts
Chapter 6 Administered Invention in France
Chapter 7 Going for Gold: Prizing Innovation
Chapter 8 "Creative Destruction:" War and Technology
Chapter 9 Of Apples and Ideas: Knowledge Spillovers in Patents and Prizes
Chapter 10 Designing Women: Gender and Innovation
Chapter 11 Selling Ideas: Global Markets for Patented Inventions
Chapter 12 Innovations in Law
Chapter 13 National Innovation Systems and Innovation in Nations
Chapter 14 Conclusion: Now and Then
Appendix