Technology Transfer and Scandinavian Industrialisation

Kristine Bruland, Research Fellow, Oslo University .

• Social and cultural factors in technology transfer, Svante Lindqvist; how industrial technology first came to Norway, Trine Parmer; British influence on developments in the Swedish foundry industry, Martin Fritz; industrial espionage and the transfer of technology to early Norwegian glass industry, Rolv Petter Amdam; borrowing and adaptation of British technology by the Swedish iron industry in the early 19th century, Rolf Adamson; artisan travel and technology transfer to Denmark 1750-1900, Poul Stromstad; transfer patterns of technology - theory and evidence, Fritz Hodne; the diffusion of technology and industrial change in Sweden during the 19th century, Lennart Jorberg; foreign technology and the Danish brick and tile industry 1830-1870, Ole Hyldtoft; the Norwegian mechanical engineering industry and the transfer of technology, 1800-1900, Kristine Bruland; the introduction of the Bessemer process in Sweden, Claus Wohlert; laggards as leaders - some reflections on technology diffusion in Norwegian shipping, 1870-1940, Hakon With Andersen; the development and diffusion of European water turbines, 1870-1921, Gunnar Nerheim; Norway's entry into the age of paper - the development of the pulp and paper industry in the district of Drammen, Eli Moen; "to take great pains" - Norwegian wood pulp on the British market in the 1870s, Even Lange.

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