TY - JOUR AU - Merton, Robert K. AB - Summary I. Socio-economic problems of rates of invention and shifts of inventive interest, 454; limitations of the use of patent statistics as indexes of the rate of invention, 455. — II. The data used, 457; analysis of the data, 458; pattern of technical change within an industry, 460. — III. Factors which account for this pattern, 464. This content is only available as a PDF. Copyright, 1935, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College TI - Fluctuations in the Rate of Industrial Invention JF - The Quarterly Journal of Economics DO - 10.2307/1883863 DA - 1935-05-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/fluctuations-in-the-rate-of-industrial-invention-FiCI2KL0j1 SP - 454 EP - 474 VL - 49 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -