'Technological change in Birmingham and Sheffield in the eighteenth century' in P Clark & P Corfield (eds), Industry and Urbanisation in Eighteenth Century England

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Author(s) Berg, Maxine
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1994
Pages pp20-32
Publisher Leicester University
Place Published Leicester

Topics:

Name Business & related networks, exc mercantile networks
Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
Name Small businesses
Name Intellectual property inc patents, trade marks, designs & copyright inc management

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the continuing importance of small producers and their manufacturing communities and their specific relationship to the development of new technology. Uses Birmingham and Sheffield as case studies on account of their industry which was characterised by combined 'technological leadership and small producers'. Has sections: 'Theories of technological change'; 'Patenting and innovation'; 'Innovation of a free enterprise zone'; 'Occupational versatility'; 'Machinery and tools'; 'Social networks and extended economies'