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Mothers of Innovation: How Expanding Social Networks Gave Birth to the Industrial Revolution
Leonard Dudley
What does it take for a society to be able to innovate? The question is crucial today when an increasing share of world patents are taken out by countries such as Japan, South Korea and China, which have limited energy resources and cultures very different from those in the West.
295 pages, Illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 12, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9781443840965 |
| Publishers | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Pages | 295 |
| Dimensions | 148 × 212 × 26 mm · 548 g |
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