A General-Purpose Technology at Work: The Corliss Steam Engine in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States
By N. Rosenberg, M. Trajtenberg. 2004
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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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- Opening up the ‘Jacobs Spillovers’ black box: local diversity, creativity and the processes underlying new combinations (2011, background): “…engineering and the Corliss steam engine in light of the influential concept of ‘general purpose technologies’ (GPT) that are said to perform “some generic function that is vital to the functioning of a large number of using products or production systems” (Rosenberg and Trajtenberg, 2004: 65).”
- The Evolution of Management Models: A Neo-Schumpeterian Theory (2018, background): “…however, diffused very little across industry, in part because water-power-based production depends on streams and local topography (Seidel, 1976; Rosenberg and Trajtenberg, 2004), which kept owner–inventors’ development and optimization efforts focused on technical, environmental, and local…”
- Commercializing Generic Technology: The Case of Advanced Materials Ventures (2006, unknown): “…purpose technology Breadth of impact across industries Hagedoorn and Schakenraad (1991); Martin (1993); Bresnahan and Trajtenberg (1995); Rosenberg and Trajtenberg (2004); Keenan (2003); Shane (2004) Radical technology/radical innovation Depth of impact on industries substantial…”
- The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies (2018, unknown): “Intangible assets are an increasingly important component of economic activity, especially IT-related intangibles (Brynjolfsson and Hitt, 2000; Hall 2000; Hall 2001; Brynjolfsson, Hitt, and Yang 2002; Tambe, Hitt, and Brynjolfsson 2012, Saunders and Brynjolfsson 2016).”