@article{28900,
      recid = {28900},
      author = {Mowery, David C.},
      title = {Breakthrough innovations in aircraft and the intellectual  property system, 1900-1975.},
      pages = {1 volume ;},
      abstract = {Modern commercial aircraft are complex products that  incorporate innovations in technologies ranging from  advanced materials to software and electronics. Although  commercial aircraft assuredly qualify as a transformative  innovation, in fact today's commercial aircraft are the  result of a process of incremental innovation and  improvement that dates back more than a century. A great  many of these improvements and incremental innovations  originated from government-supported R&D programs sponsored  by the military services or government research  laboratories. The adoption of commercial-aircraft  innovations within many industrial economies, including the  United States, also has been influenced by government  regulation of air transportation. This paper provides a  historical characterization of the innovation and record of  technical progress in US commercial aircraft during the  1900-1975 period. It identifies the sources of support for  innovation and technological adoption, and examines the  origins and impacts of "breakthrough innovations" on the  overall evolution of the global commercial aircraft  industry. The paper also assesses the role of patents in  these important innovations.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/28900},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.34667/tind.28900},
}