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Collective Invention during the British Industrial Revolution The Case of the Cornish Pumping Engine

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Alessandro Nuvolari

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  1. Peter B. Meyer, 2003. "Episodes of Collective Invention," Working Papers 368, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. [Downloadable!]
  2. Jeroen de Jong & Eric von Hippel, 2008. "User Innovation in SMEs: Incidence and Transfer to Producers," Scales Research Reports H200814, EIM Business and Policy Research. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Francesco Rullani, 2006. "Dragging developers towards the core. How the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community enhances developers’ contribution," LEM Papers Series 2006/22, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Serguey Braguinsky & Salavat Gabdrakhmanov & Atsushi Ohyama, 2007. "A Theory of Competitive Industry Dynamics With Innovation and Imitation," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 10(4), pages 729-760, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Nuvolari, A., 2003. "Open source software development: some historical perspectives," ECIS Working Papers 03.01, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology. [Downloadable!]
  8. Castaldi, C. & Nuvolari, A., 2003. "Technological Revolutions and Economic Growth:The “Age of Steam” Reconsidered," ECIS Working Papers 03.25, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology. [Downloadable!]
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  10. Julien Pénin, 2008. "More open than open innovation? Rethinking the concept of openness in innovation studies," Working Papers of BETA 2008-18, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, ULP, Strasbourg. [Downloadable!]
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