Patents and Innovation in the German States, 1843-1877

德国各州的专利与创新，1843-1877 年

• 批准号: 375527171
• 负责人: Dr. Alexander Donges
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung für Verfassungs-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/375527171?language=en
• 关键词: Patents; Innovation; German; States; 1843

Differences in the ability to generate innovative products and to improve existing production technologies are a potential explanation for economic disparities among nations and regions. The quantification of this innovative activity has thus become an important task for economic historians. During the recent two decades, patents have been established as a common indicator of innovativeness.The major focus and contribution of this project is the quantification of long-term differences in innovativeness between and within German regions before the harmonization of the German patent law in 1877, for which we use new patent data. In particular, we want to analyze whether observed regional differences in patenting activity can be explained by differences in the patent law and the practice of patent granting. Furthermore, we use foreign patents in order to analyze market integration within the Zollverein. At last, we take a closer view on the activity of individual inventors and entrepreneurs in comparison with early corporations.Our analysis will be based on a new hand-collected patent data set, including all patents that were granted in the German States between 1843 and 1877.

产生创新产品和改进现有生产技术的能力不同，可能是造成各国和各区域之间经济差距的一个原因。因此，对这种创新活动进行量化就成了经济史学家的一项重要任务。近20年来，专利已被确立为衡量创新性的通用指标。本研究的主要目的和贡献在于，利用新的专利数据，对1877年德国专利法统一前德国各地区之间和地区内部的创新性的长期差异进行量化。特别是，我们想分析专利申请活动中观察到的地区差异是否可以用专利法和专利授予实践的差异来解释。此外，我们使用外国专利来分析关税同盟内的市场整合。最后，我们将通过与早期企业的比较，对个人发明家和企业家的活动进行更深入的分析。我们的分析将基于一个新的手工收集的专利数据集，包括1843年至1877年期间在德国各州授予的所有专利。

项目成果

Patent Law and Innovation in Europe during the Industrial Revolution

工业革命期间欧洲的专利法与创新

• DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2019-0001
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook
• 作者: Alexander Donges;Felix Selgert
• 通讯作者: Felix Selgert

The Social Background of Prussian Inventors and Entrepreneurs during the First Industrial Revolution

第一次工业革命期间普鲁士发明家和企业家的社会背景

• DOI: 10.1515/zug-2019-0030
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte
• 作者: Alexander Donges;Felix Selgert
• 通讯作者: Felix Selgert

The Consequences of Radical Patent-Regime Change

专利制度彻底变革的后果

• DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3798363
• 期刊: IO: Productivity
• 作者: Alexander Donges;Felix Selgert
• 通讯作者: Felix Selgert