Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries (University of Chicago Press, 1999), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/learning-doing-markets-firms-and-countries/inventors-firms-and-market-technology-late-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-centuries.