Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Anna Guagnini (University of Bologna, Italy) and Luca Molà (University of Warwick, UK)
Part I: Early Modern Italian Leadership
Inventors, Patents and the Market for Innovations in Renaissance Italy - Luca Molà (University of Warwick, UK)
The Microcosm: Technological Innovation and the Transfer of Italian Mechanical Knowledge to the Habsburg Empire in the Sixteenth Century - Cristiano Zanetti (European University Institute, Italy)
Diamonds in Early Modern Venice: Technology, Products and International Competition - Salvatore Ciriacono (Università di Padova, Italy)
A Global Supremacy: The Worldwide Hegemony of the Piedmontese Reeling Technologies. 1720s-1830s - Roberto Davini (European University Institute, Italy)
Part II: Object Innovation: Ceramics
Raw Materials, Transmission of Know-How and Ceramic Techniques in Early Modern Italy: A Mediterranean Perspective - Marta Caroscio (Harvard University Press, USA)
Anabaptist Migration and the Diffusion of the Bianchi Technology from Faenza to East Central Europe, XVIth-XVIIth Centuries - Emese Balint (European University Institute, Italy)
Part III: Modernity: Three Case Studies From Experiment to Plant.
A Bold Leap into Electric Light: The Creation of the Società Italiana Edison, 1880-1886 - Anna Guagnini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Keeping Abreast with the Technology of Science: The Economic Life of the Physics Laboratory at the University of Padua, 1847-1857 - Christian Carletti (University of Bologna, Italy)
Mechanics "Made in Italy": Innovation and Expertise Evolution. A Case Study from the Packaging Industry, 1960-98 - Matteo Serafini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Part IV: Communications
Telecommunications Italian Style: The Shaping of the Constitutive Choices (1850-1914) - Gabriele Balbi (USI-Lugano, Switzerland) and Simone Fari (USI-Lugano, Switzerland)
Beyond the Myth of the Self-taught Inventor: The Learning Process and Formative Years of Young Guglielmo Marconi - Barbara Valotti, Marconi Museum, Italy
Technology Transfer, Economic Strategies and Politics in the Building of the First Italian Submarine Telegraph - Andrea Giuntini (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Part V: Lights and Shades: Italian Innovation Across the Centuries
European Steel vs Chinese Cast-iron: From Technological Change to Social and Political Choices (4th Century BC-18th Century AD) - Mathieu Arnoux ( l'Université Paris VII, France)
The Italian National Innovation System: A Long Term Perspective, 1861-2011 - Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy) and Michelangelo Vasta (University of Siena, Italy)