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"Commercialisation of Invention and the Economy of Knowledge. Britain-France, 18th Century"

Coordinatore	THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK    more  Organization address address: Kirby Corner Road - University House - city: COVENTRY postcode: CV4 8UW contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Kate Cognome: Hughes Email: send email Telefono: +44-24 765 23716 Fax: +44 24 765 74458
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	169˙575 €
EC contributo	169˙575 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-09-01   -   2010-11-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK  Organization address address: Kirby Corner Road - University House - city: COVENTRY postcode: CV4 8UW contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Kate Cognome: Hughes Email: send email Telefono: +44-24 765 23716 Fax: +44 24 765 74458	UK (COVENTRY)	coordinator	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Our research project focuses on the social consequences of the diffusion of technical culture from the 18th-century to the beginning of the 19th-century. Considering the rise of audiences for technology, we would like to understand how the dissemination of useful knowledge and invention fostered public support and processes of appropriation and participation, for instance through the rise of mediation combining visual languages (public shows, experiments, exhibitions) and print resources: advertisement, posters, periodicals, how-to leaflets. The question of public and reception is particularly important: On the one hand, the interest for new inventions created markets for a mixed audience which disseminated knowledge. On the other hand, the culture of curiosity and the culture of amateurs transform the conditions of participations. We will in particular try to understand, through a chronological and comparative study of funding models as subscriptions for technical devices, the commercialisation of inventions as interplay between markets and Public Good, charity or interest in improvements. This methodology allows us to identify in a precise manner an active public and to study the social circles that support innovative activity as a resource for men like improvers, inventors, and entrepreneurs who kept on planning technological projects. Our research methodology will cross the fields of cultural and social history with economic history, and also rely on comparative approaches at a European level. Three innovative research topics will be addressed by analysing the emergence of public for technology: Dissemination of technical processes through the link between consumption and appropriation, territorial differentiation at different scales (towns, countries) and transformation of modern world, between Enlightenments and industrialisation.'