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Secrets for Sale? Innovation and the Nature of Knowledge in an Early Industrial District: The Potteries, 1750–1851

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Joe Lane is a business historian and Fellow at the London School of Economics. His work examines the organization and behavior of firms and industrial clusters, with a particular focus on innovation and knowledge. His current project surveys historical clusters at the firm level to examine their evolution over time. It also assesses how entrepreneurs responded to shocks and opportunities for knowledge creation and dissemination during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Contact: LSE100, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE. E-mail: j.p.lane@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article investigates innovation and knowledge circulation in the North Staffordshire Potteries during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It evaluates new empirical evidence of formal and informal patterns of knowledge creation and dissemination in order to highlight tensions between forms of open knowledge sharing and the private appropriation of returns to innovative activity. By presenting new patent data, it shows that formal protection was not a widespread strategy in the industry. It uses patent specifications to determine what types of knowledge were, and could be, patented in the district, and by whom. A range of sources are used to demonstrate evidence of innovation and knowledge appropriation outside of the patent system. The article identifies distinct types of knowledge in the industry and shows how differences in these led to a range of strategies employed by potters, with the role of secrecy highlighted as a particularly prevalent and effective strategy.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 2019 , pp. 861 - 906
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Storper, Michael, and Venables, Anthony J.. “Buzz: Face-to-Face Contact and the Urban Economy.” Journal of Economic Geography 4 (2004): 351–370.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851, Vol. 2. London: Spicer Brothers, 1851.Google Scholar
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Mechanics’ Magazine (1823–1872)Google Scholar
The Patent Journal, and Inventors’ Magazine (1846–1847)Google Scholar
Staffordshire Advertiser (1795–1870)Google Scholar
Staffordshire Gazette and County Standard (1839–1850)Google Scholar
Staffordshire Gazette and General Advertiser (1813–1814)Google Scholar
Staffordshire Mercury / North Staffordshire Mercury (1828–1848)Google Scholar
The Potter’s Examiner and Workman’s Advocate (1843–1845)Google Scholar
First Report of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. London: Spicer Brothers, 1852.Google Scholar
Papers Relative to Mr. Champion’s Application to Parliament for the Extension of the Term of a Patent London, 1775.Google Scholar
Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into Which the Exhibition Was Divided, Volume 3. London: Spicer Brothers, 1852.Google Scholar
Tables of the Revenue, Population, Commerce, &c. of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies, Part VI, 1836 . London, 1838.Google Scholar
Intellectual Property Office. “Patent applications filed and patents granted each year 1852 to 1915.” http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140603093549/http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/patent/p-about/p-whatis/p-oldnumbers/p-oldnumbers-1852.htmGoogle Scholar
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The Repertory of Patent Inventions. Vol. 19. 1852Google Scholar
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