TY - JOUR
T1 - British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791-1844)
T2 - Evidence from Patent Data
AU - Nuvolari, Alessandro
AU - Tortorici, Gaspare
AU - Vasta, Michelangelo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association.
PY - 2023/9/18
Y1 - 2023/9/18
N2 - This paper examines the patterns of technology transfer from Britain to France during the early phases of industrializing using a dataset comprising all patents granted in France in the period 1791-1844. Exploiting the peculiarities of French legislation, we construct an array of patent quality indicators and investigate their determinants. We find that patents filed by British inventors or French inventors with personal connections to British inventors were of relatively higher quality. Overall, our results show that the French innovation system was capable of attracting and effectively absorbing key technologies from Britain.
AB - This paper examines the patterns of technology transfer from Britain to France during the early phases of industrializing using a dataset comprising all patents granted in France in the period 1791-1844. Exploiting the peculiarities of French legislation, we construct an array of patent quality indicators and investigate their determinants. We find that patents filed by British inventors or French inventors with personal connections to British inventors were of relatively higher quality. Overall, our results show that the French innovation system was capable of attracting and effectively absorbing key technologies from Britain.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0022050723000232
DO - 10.1017/S0022050723000232
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85165716084
SN - 0022-0507
VL - 83
SP - 833
EP - 873
JO - Journal of Economic History
JF - Journal of Economic History
IS - 3
ER -