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      Sporadic Innovation and Historical Continuity

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      Keywords: Innovation, Technical Change, Economic History, Input-output Analysis
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            This article argues that, by appealing to technological factors, one can compare different innovations, even different economies, over time. An application is made to the development of steam engines and turbines over their history from 1700 to 2000, for which it is shown that four types of physical variables--temperatures, pressures, thermal efficiencies and power ratings--provide common measures of succeeding devices. Such measures can be incorporated in a technological analogue of an input-output system. In principle, an entire economy could be represented in technological form; and, since scientific variables are invariant through time, its evolution could be depicted in quantitative terms.

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            Journal
            Journal ID (publisher-id): cpro20
            Journal ID (archive): CPRO
            Title: Prometheus
            Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation
            Publisher: Pluto Journals
            ISSN (Print): 0810-9028
            ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030
            Publication date (Print): June 2003
            Volume: 21
            Issue: 2
            Pages: 161-175
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            Publisher ID: 10032488 Coden ID: Prometheus, Vol. 21, No. 2, June 2003, pp. 161-175
            DOI: 10.1080/08109020308123
            SO-VID: 66efcdfc-c4f1-4b68-9e23-b493095b4961
            Copyright statement: Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
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            Figures: 0, Tables: 0, References: 11, Pages: 15
            Categories
            Subject: Original Articles

            ScienceOpen disciplines: Computer science,Arts,Social & Behavioral Sciences,Law,History,Economics
            Keywords: Innovation,Technical Change,Input-output Analysis,Economic History

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