Which actors drove national patterns of technological specialization into the science-based age? The British experience, 1918–1932

IF 2.8 4区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS

Industrial and Corporate Change Pub Date : 2023-01-24 DOI:10.1093/icc/dtac062

John Cantwell, Anna Spadavecchia

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Abstract

Abstract This article assesses the contributions of industry leaders, smaller corporations, and independent inventors to the international technological specialization of Great Britain in the interwar years. For the first time, we compare directly the contribution of these sources and combine the Chandlerian and “sources of invention” perspectives. The analysis is based on a novel dataset of more than 8,000 patents granted in the USA to British inventions. Our findings show the extent to which Britain integrated inventions generated by independent inventors with those of corporate inventors, i.e., industry leaders and smaller corporations, in both engineering- and science-based fields. This research highlights specificities of a former leader’s transition from the technological paradigm of the first phase of capitalism to that of the second phase.

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哪些因素推动了国家技术专业化模式进入以科学为基础的时代?英国的经验，1918-1932

摘要本文评估了两次世界大战期间，工业领袖、小型企业和独立发明家对英国国际技术专业化的贡献。我们第一次直接比较了这些来源的贡献，并结合了钱德勒学派和“发明来源”的观点。这项分析是基于一个新的数据集，该数据集包含了在美国授予英国发明的8000多项专利。我们的研究结果表明，在工程和科学领域，英国将独立发明人的发明与企业发明人(即行业领导者和小型公司)的发明结合在一起的程度。本研究强调了前领导人从资本主义第一阶段的技术范式过渡到第二阶段的特殊性。

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期刊介绍： The journal covers the following: the internal structures of firms; the history of technologies; the evolution of industries; the nature of competition; the decision rules and strategies; the relationship between firms" characteristics and the institutional environment; the sociology of management and of the workforce; the performance of industries over time; the labour process and the organization of production; the relationship between, and boundaries of, organizations and markets; the nature of the learning process underlying technological and organizational change.