Round Table comment: From «useful knowledge» to a «culture of growth»
- Markus A. Denzel
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- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.26
we can state that economically useful knowledge could induce innovations which further deepened and widened this economically useful knowledge; and this cycle was at least one of the decisive factors of raising profitability and, as a final con-sequence, of economic growth becoming obvious in the industrial evolutions in different European and later also non-European countries. To say it more clearly: Innovations did influence economic growth. Cultural and institutional processes, which generated knowledge and human capital, could influence the development of labour productivity. Knowledge did contribute to reduce risks in pre-industrial societies through information, communication, and resilience
- Keywords:
- Growth,
- innovation,
- knowledge economy,
- productivity,
- useful knowledge,
Leipzig University, Germany
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Round Table comment: From «useful knowledge» to a «culture of growth»
Authors
Markus A. Denzel
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.26
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Book Title
L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century
Editors
Giampiero Nigro
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
456
Publication Year
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0091-2
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0092-9
Series Title
Datini Studies in Economic History
Series ISSN
2975-1241
Series E-ISSN
2975-1195