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Miller, Wm. Marion; Dessì, Giuseppe

doi:10.2307/40096615

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Reinecker's Path From Imitation To Innovation1

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“…18 In addition, in 1897 J. E. Reinecker hired an American expert who had presented the innovations of a Philadelphia firm at the Chicago World Exhibition in 1893. 19 Over time, the firm came to rely on information about innovative machine tools distributed by international resellers among the different (German and foreign) firms they represented. 20 The world's largest reseller of machine tools, Schuchardt & Schütte in Berlin, for example, informed J. E. Reinecker regularly about the latest technological development in the United States.…”

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Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Knowledge Spillover from American to German Machine Toolmakers

Richter¹,

Streb²

2011

J. Econ. Hist.

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Today, German machine toolmakers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and imitating German technology. A century ago, German machine toolmakers used the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this catching-up process, we use patent statistics to analyze firms’ activities between 1877 and 1932. We show that German firms deployed imitating strategies in the late nineteenth century and the 1920s to catch-up to their American competitors. The German administration supported this strategy by stipulating a patent law that discriminated against foreign patent holders and by delaying the granting of patents to foreign applicants.

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confidence: 99%