Inventive Activity in the British Textile Industry, 1700–1800
通过分析18世纪英国纺织业的创新，评估仅基于专利证据的工业革命发明研究，发现技术变革的加速出现在1790年代，此前工业发展符合斯密式增长模式。
An analysis of innovations in the eighteenth-century British textile industry is the basis for an evaluation of aggregate studies of invention during the Industrial Revolution, derived from patent evidence alone. Disaggregation of the data challenges recent generalizations concerning the pace and pattern of technical change over the period. Discontinuities in the nature of invention, promoting an acceleration in total factor productivity growth, are traced to the 1790s. Prior to that date, industrial development conformed to a pattern of Smithian growth, as manufacturers diversified their output in response to an expanding domestic market for consumer goods.