Innovation in Textile Machinery

Roy Rothwell

Chapter 7 in Technical Innovation and British Economic Performance, 1980, pp 125-141 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Immediately after the Second World War much of the machinery manufactured in the UK was ‘traditional’, and the manufacturers had no strong commitment to technical development. A Board of Trade working party recorded in 1946: … in the last ten years textile machinery makers in other countries … have been spending money on research and development on a scale immensely greater than anything attempted in this country. (Cotton Industry Working Party, 1946)

Keywords: Radical Innovation; Technical Innovation; Incremental Innovation; Foreign Competitor; Unit Value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04561-7_7

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