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Mothers of innovation : how expanding social networks gave birth to the industrial revolution / Leonard Dudley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dudley, Leonard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial revolution--Europe.
- Industrial revolution.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects--Europe--History.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What does it take for a society to be able to innovate? The question is crucial today when an increasing share of world patents are taken out by countries such as Japan, South Korea and China, which have limited energy resources and cultures very different from those in the West. However, most previous studies of the beginnings of industrialization have focused on the resources and institutions of Britain alone. As a result, they have missed the lessons to be learned from casting the net more...
- Contents:
- pt. I. The third acceleration
- pt. II. Cooperating to innovate.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-4312-1
- OCLC:
- 820123421
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