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Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links Between Invention and Production: Experience From the Second Industrial Revolution
This paper investigates the impact of learning-by-
producing on inventive activity and shows that, in both
emerging and maturing industries, the geographic association between invention and production was rather weak during the Second Industrial Revolution. The findings suggest that scholars have over--emphasized the importance of learning-by-producing in accounting for the geographic differences in inventive activity, and underestimated the significance of technical skills or human capital amongst the population.
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http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:12469&r=all