• Amateur or professional? : a new look at 19th century patentees in Norway 

      Basberg, Bjørn L. (Discussion paper;12/2012, Working paper, 2012-05)
      The paper analyses Norwegian 19th century patentees. A special focus is on the affiliation or relationship of the patentees to the manufacturing industries, business and the wider economy. A main question is whether the ...
    • Inducement prizes and innovation 

      Brunt, Liam; Lerner, Josh; Nicholas, Tom (Discussion Papers;25/2011, Working paper, 2011-12)
      We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find large effects ...