Useful knowledge, technological innovation and economic development in the European ceramic industries, 14th-18th centuries Carlos Laliena Corbera University of Zaragoza, Spain This is a section of L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century(DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9) by Giampiero Nigro Firenze University Press Firenze 2023 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.25

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Ceramics have been essential in the domestic sphere and their production has undergone in the preindustrial era technological and cultural changes whose importance is obvious. This paper is to show in a very concise way how the production of European glazed ceramics underwent three phases of intense transformation of useful knowledge related to its production, with a successive accumulation leading to increasingly efficient results and a higher level of productivity. Moreover, it can be safely stated that, without this accumulation, the great progress of the 19th century in this area would have been impossible.

 Ceramics Knowledge Economy useful knowledge Middle Ages Early Modern Ages

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