Economic History: Knowledge Flows and Economic Growth

The importance of access to knowledge for technological progress in the Industrial Revolution
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/importance-access-knowledge-technological-progress-industrial-revolution
 
Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge
https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/Assets/Documents/Workshops/HistoryCultureandPopularBeliefs/Hornung.pdf