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| Title: | | General purpose technologies and the Industrial Revolution  |
| Authors: | | Dudley, Leonard |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Papers on economics and evolution 1011 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | general purpose technologies Industrial Revolution innovation cooperation spillovers |
| JEL: | | O3 N6 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:gbv:27-20110628-135755-6 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Papers on Economics and Evolution, MPI für Ökonomik
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