Engineering Development: Colombia’s National School of Mines, 1887-1930

Murray, Pamela

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“…A similar complementarity is suggested in Colombia by the emphasis both present and contemporary observers put on the impact of engineering schools, such as the Escuela de Minas de Antioquia (Antioquia School of Mines) as providers of talent for emerging industry(Safford, 1976;Murray, 1994).28Fogarty et al (1985) attributes to weak innovative capacity the outcome of a quasi-experiment whereby the Spanish Merino sheep were introduced into New South Wales, Australia, and Argentina's River Plate region in the same year and had the same access to European capital, but by 1885 showed yields of only half the wool per sheep in Argentina.…”

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas *Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in particular, the poor performance of Latin America relative to North America. This remains the case after controlling for literacy, other higher order human capital, such as lawyers, as well as demand side elements that might be confounded with engineering. The analysis then finds that agglomeration, certain geographical fundamentals, and extractive institutions such as slavery affect innovative capacity. However, a large effect associated with being a Spanish colony remains suggesting important inherited factors.

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

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2014

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Engineering Development: Colombia’s National School of Mines, 1887-1930

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