Round Table comment: From «useful knowledge» to a «culture of growth» Markus A. Denzel Leipzig University, Germany 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/10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.26

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we can state that economically useful knowledge could induce innovations which further deepened and widened this economically useful knowledge; and this cycle was at least one of the decisive factors of raising profitability and, as a final con-sequence, of economic growth becoming obvious in the industrial evolutions in different European and later also non-European countries. To say it more clearly: Innovations did influence economic growth. Cultural and institutional processes, which generated knowledge and human capital, could influence the development of labour productivity. Knowledge did contribute to reduce risks in pre-industrial societies through information, communication, and resilience

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