Dynamics of Innovation

<p> BEST KNOWN AS THE LEADING HISTORIAN OF FRENCH RAILWAYS François Caron has also conducted significant research on other aspects of economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries such as electricity water and steam power the theory of innovation and the structure of enterprise. In this volume he brings together different facets of his expertise to present a broad panorama of modern technological history. Caron shows how artisanal know-how was adapted expanded and formalized during the three industrial revolutions that swept over Great Britain France Germany and the United States resulting in a comprehensive analysis of this long complex and continuous historical process leading up to the twenty-first century. He thereby illustrates the increasingly fruitful interaction between technological and scientific knowledge in modern times.</p>