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The FIM represented one of the most important public credit instruments set up for helping the engineering industry in Italy after the Second World War. Engineering was the most advanced sector in the Italian economy and the government saw economic...

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was founded in 1957 by two MIT engineers who had worked on the Whirlwind program, Kenneth Olsen and Harlan Andersen. By 1988 it had grown to be the world’s second largest computer corporation. From this heady...

In recent times one major development in several industrial districts in Italy has been the emergence of new hierarchical structures that led to the rise of lead firms. These are firms that – contrary to canonical district firms which tend to...

This paper analyzes patenting activities of German firms, large and small, between 1877 and 1932 based on a newly developed dataset containing annual firm-level data about size and long-lived patents. It will be shown first that innovations were...

Eastern Intelligence with Western Components. Development of Radio Reconnaissance Instruments in Socialist Hungary. This article presents the history of a Hungarian defence industry enterprise, which also became – to a limited extent –...