The industry is well chosen for such a study, because innovation and the commercialisation of technology are the centre of its own history, and because the business has played a pivotal role in the industrial and post-industrial revolutions of the richest economies.

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He is a senior research associate of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History.

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