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- Title
Patent Law and Innovation in Europe during the Industrial Revolution.
- Authors
Donges, Alexander; Selgert, Felix
- Abstract
Human capital, access to markets, and innovation-friendly institutions were important preconditions for the acceleration of technological change during the industrial revolution. In this context, the recent literature discusses the role of patents. Given their dual nature, patents may have either stimulated innovation through the creation of financial incentives for inventors or they may have hampered innovation, because they created monopolies that restricted the free flow of knowledge. For this reason, the overall effects of patents on innovation and, eventually, long-run economic growth are not clear. In order to develop a better understanding of the determinants of innovation, this special issue of the Economic History Yearbook therefore focuses on the causes and consequences of patent laws and patent law reforms in the nineteenth and early twentieth century in different European countries.
- Subjects
EUROPE; INDUSTRIAL revolution; PATENT law; HUMAN capital; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; MONETARY incentives
- Publication
Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 2019, Vol 60, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0075-2800
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/jbwg-2019-0001