WOJNY I PODBOJE JAKO MECHANIZMY TRANSFERU INNOWACJI (OD SARGONA WIELKIEGO DO WEHRNERA VON BRAUNA)
WARS AND CONQUESTS AS MECHANISMS OF INNOVATION TRANSFER (FROM SARGON THE GREAT TO WERNHER VON BRAUN)

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the history of wars and conquests, from distant antiquity to modern times, which were an impulse or enabled the transfer of broadly understood innovations (technical, cultural, socio-economic, scientific). Wars and conquests influenced the transfer of innovation in various ways: learning from the opponent, learning from an ally, learning from defeated and victorious, looting items that became the seeds of technology and knowledge development, taking prisoners who passed their skills on to the winners, elimination of political barriers to trade and population migration by conquest. The article does not give a definitive answer about the balance of wars and conquests for human development.

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