General purpose technologies and the Industrial Revolution

Arbeitspapier

Did breakthroughs in core processes during the Industrial Revolution tend to generate further innovations in downstream technologies? Here a theoretical model examines the effect of a political shock on a non-innovating society in which there is high potential willingness to cooperate. The result is regional specialization in the innovation process by degree of cooperation. Tests with a zero-inflated Poisson specification indicate that 116 important innovations between 1700 and 1849 may be grouped into three categories: (1) General Purpose Technologies (GPTs) tended to be generated in large states with standardized languages following transition to pluralistic political systems; (2) GPTs in turn generated spillovers for their regions in technologies where cooperation was necessary to integrate distinct fields of expertise; (3) however, GPTs discouraged downstream innovation in their regions where such direct cooperation was not required.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Papers on Economics and Evolution ; No. 1011

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: general purpose technologies ; Industrial Revolution ; innovation ; cooperation ; spillovers ; Industrialisierung ; Technologie ; Räumliche Innovationsdiffusion ; Spillover-Effekt ; Regionale Arbeitsteilung ; Schätzung ; Welt

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dudley, Leonard
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (wo): Jena
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/57524
• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:27-20110628-135755-6
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ