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Carl Auer von Welsbach: Chemist, Inventor, Entrepreneur pp 99–113Cite as

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Patents and Products

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There is no question that Carl Auer von Welsbach was a supreme innovator—his fertile imagination was able to take ordinary observations, made time and again by others, and transform them into useful inventions , as evidenced by the three great examples described in the previous chapters. That his entrepreneurial abilities were called forth by the necessity of promoting his inventions were obvious, but need to be analyzed.

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Notes

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    Reisman [1].

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    Metcalfe [2].

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    Schumpeter [3].

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    Dahlmann [4].

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    Shah [5].

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    Becker et al. [6].

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    Becker et al. [7].

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    Schumpeter [8].

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    Becker et al. [9].

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    Becker et al. [10].

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    Becker et al. [11].

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    Shah [5].

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    Schumpeter [12].

  14. 14.

    Becker et al. [13].

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    Becker et al. [14].

  16. 16.

    Schumpeter [15].

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    Dahlmann [16].

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    Bonyhady [17].

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    Groß [18].

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    Weidinger [19].

  21. 21.

    OSRAM [20].

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    MSA is the U.S.-based Mine Safety Appliances group.

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    Robison [21].

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    Bouvier [22].

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    Riehl and Seitz [23].

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    Oleynikov [24].

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    http://www.auerlicht.com/history/history.htm (last accessed 15 January 2018).

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    Roland Adunka

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    Mary Virginia Orna

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Adunka, R., Orna, M.V. (2018). Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Patents and Products. In: Carl Auer von Welsbach: Chemist, Inventor, Entrepreneur. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77905-8_7

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