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Financing Invention During the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920
The paper explores how the city of Clevelands leading inventors and technologically innovative firms obtained financing, and finds that formal institutions, such as banks and securities markets, played only a very limited role.
Geography
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http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/isus/pdfiles/economyofcleveland.pdf