relation: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/21624/
title: Patents and the first industrial revolution in the United States, France and Britain, 1700-1850
creator: Bottomley, Sean
subject: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
description: This paper surveys the recent historiography of three national patent systems during the period of the first industrial revolution – the United States, France and, in particular detail, Britain. The purpose of the paper is two-fold. First, to show in a comparative framework how the institutional parameters of a patent system influence inventive activity. Second, to show that patents can, under certain circumstances, provide a net benefit to society.
publisher: IAST working paper
date: 2014
type: Monograph
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/21624/1/wp_iast_1414.pdf
identifier:   Bottomley, Sean <https://www.idref.fr/182611132>  (2014) Patents and the first industrial revolution in the United States, France and Britain, 1700-1850.  IAST working paper, n. 14-14, Toulouse     
relation: http://iast.fr/pub/28752
language: en