2018
DOI: 10.1111/ehr.12703
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Technology transfer via foreign patents in Germany, 1843–77

Abstract: This article analyses the spread of innovation in mid-nineteenth-century Germany using foreign patents as an indicator for technology transfer. It introduces a new dataset of over 1,400 patents granted in the Grand Duchy of Baden between 1843 and 1877. The data show that Baden's technology import via foreign patents from German and non-German inventors was important. This technology transfer was broadly based, although technologies related to the textile and machine-building industries are prominent in the dat… Show more

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“…As in the Swiss case, many domestic firms freely entered the market and started a fierce price competition that only the most cost-effective companies survived. In contrast to this view, Donges and Selgert (2019a) consider the possibility that Baden, the western neighboring state of Wuerttemberg, fostered growth by treating domestic and foreign inventors equally in the mid-nineteenth century. This liberal patent practice might have facilitated the access to innovative foreign knowledge that domestic firms could get by disassembling imported machinery or scrutinizing patent descriptions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 96%
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“…As in the Swiss case, many domestic firms freely entered the market and started a fierce price competition that only the most cost-effective companies survived. In contrast to this view, Donges and Selgert (2019a) consider the possibility that Baden, the western neighboring state of Wuerttemberg, fostered growth by treating domestic and foreign inventors equally in the mid-nineteenth century. This liberal patent practice might have facilitated the access to innovative foreign knowledge that domestic firms could get by disassembling imported machinery or scrutinizing patent descriptions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…First, we allocated each patent based on its title to 1 of the 89 technological classes introduced by the Imperial Patent Office in 1877. Second, we used the mapping developed by Donges and Selgert (2019a) (see online-appendix ehr12703-sup-0001-SuppMat.docx) to match these 89 technological classes with the industries listed in the Zollverein survey. 22 The data are published in Lehmann-Hasemeyer and Streb (2020).…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Research contents towards technology transfer mainly discourse the main actors and their interrelationship (Rahm, 1994;Rao et al, 2011;Sun and Liu, 2017;Zeng and Li, 2019), strategies and channels (Bozeman, 2000;Peng and Li, 2013), efficiency and spillover (Wang et al, 2010;Feng and Ding, 2018), spatial evolution and its determinants (Battistella et al, 2016;Qian et al, 2016), etc. However, the research scales were usually onefold locked in nations (Wen, 2014;Donges and Selgert, 2019;Guan et al, 2022), urban agglomerations or cities (Duan et al, 2018;Zhang and Gu, 2018), which showed a large constraint, as they overlooked the interaction of innovation networks in different scales (Chaminade and Plechero, 2015).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Because patents are the most direct form of evaluation of innovation output, they serve as an indicator of trends in technological development [19][20][21]. Patent analysis methods are suitable for exploring technology transfer topics [22][23][24] and evaluating the performance of industry-academia technology collaborations [25,26]. Thus, patent information is the most direct evaluation indicator for technological development.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%