| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP17442 |
| DP17442 Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge | |
| Francesco Cinnirella; Erik Hornung; Julius Koschnick | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-07-06 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3,300 members across active economic societies in Germany with those of patent holders and World's Fair exhibitors, we show that regions with more members were more innovative in the late nineteenth-century. This long-lasting effect of societies arguably arose through agglomeration economies and localized knowledge spillovers. To support this claim, we provide evidence suggesting an immediate increase in manufacturing, an earlier establishment of vocational schools, and a higher density of highly skilled mechanical workers by mid-nineteenth century in regions with more members. We also show that regions with members from the same society had higher similarity in patenting, suggesting that social networks facilitated spatial knowledge diffusion and, to some extent, shaped the geography of innovation. |
| 主题 | Economic History ; Macroeconomics and Growth |
| 关键词 | Economic societies Useful knowledge Knowledge diffusion Innovation Social Networks |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17442 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546530 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Francesco Cinnirella,Erik Hornung,Julius Koschnick. DP17442 Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge. 2022. |
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