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La Mela, M., Frankemölle, J., & Tell, F. (2025). Novelty and impact : Using document similarity to study important inventions in historical Swedish patents, 1890–1929. DHNB 2024 Conference Post-Proceedings, DHNB Publications, 7(3), 1–15. 

https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.12259

Xie, Y., La Mela, M., & Tell, F. (2025). Multimodal LLM-assisted Information Extraction from Historical Documents : The Case of Swedish Patent Cards (1945-1975) and ChatGPT. DHNB 2025 Conference Proceedings, DHNB Publications, 7(2), 1–15. 

https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.12294

Andersson, D., La Mela, M., & Tell, F. (2024). Family first: Defining, constructing, and applying historical patent families. Explorations in economic history, 101627.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2024.101627

Tell, F. (2024). AC/DC High Voltage: The evolution of Gateway Technologies and the Battle of the Systems reconsidered. In The International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society conference, June 9-June 11, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Hyvönen, E., Sinikallio, L., Leskinen, P., Drobac, S., Leal, R., La Mela, M., ... & Rantala, H. (2025). Publishing and using parliamentary Linked Data on the Semantic Web: ParliamentSampo system for Parliament of Finland. Semantic Web, 16(1), SW-243683.

https://doi.org/10.3233/sw-243683

Andersson, D., Berger, T., & Prawitz, E. (2023). Making a market: Infrastructure, integration, and the rise of innovation. Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(2), 258-274.

https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01067

Håkansson, P. G., Karlsson, T., & La Mela, M. (2023). Running out of time: using job ads to analyse the demand for messengers in the twentieth century. Scandinavian Economic History Review, 71(3), 299-318.

https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2022.2106300

Andersson, D. E., Ekman, A., Huila, A., & Tell, F. (2023). Industrial design rights and the market value of firms. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 196, 122827.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122827

Andersson, D., Karadja, M., & Prawitz, E. (2022). Mass migration and technological change. Journal of the European Economic Association, 20(5), 1859-1896.

https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvac017

Kettunen, K., & La Mela, M. (2022). Semantic tagging and the Nordic tradition of everyman’s rights. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37(2), 483-496.

https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab052

Li, D., Liang, Z., Tell, F., & Xue, L. (2021). Sectoral systems of innovation in the era of the fourth industrial revolution: an introduction to the special section. Industrial and Corporate Change, 30(1), 123-135.

https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtaa064

Lopez-Vega, H., & Tell, F. (2021). Technology strategy and MNE subsidiary upgrading in emerging markets. Technological forecasting and social Change, 167, 120709.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120709

La Mela, M. (2020). Hylätyt patentit vuosina 1864-1884: Teollisuuspolitiikkaa, kopioita vai liian huimia ideoita?. Tekniikan Waiheita, 38(3-4), 6-28.

https://doi.org/10.33355/tw.100575

La Mela, M. O. J. (2020). Tracing the emergence of nordic allemansrätten through digitised parliamentary sources. In Digital histories: Emergent approaches within the new digital history (pp. 181-197). Helsinki University Press.

https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-5-11

Andersson, D. E., & La Mela, M. (2020). Nordic networks: patent agents and the business of technology intermediation in Sweden and Finland, 1860–1910. Scandinavian Economic History Review, 68(1), 45-65.

https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2019.1667425

Andersson, D. E., Galaso, P., & Sáiz, P. (2019). Patent collaboration networks in Sweden and Spain during the Second Industrial Revolution. Industry and Innovation, 26(9), 1075-1102.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2019.1577720

Lopez-Vega, H., Tell, F., & Gillmore, E. (2019). Dancing with an economic turmoil in emerging markets: A Longitudinal Study of Subsidiary Role Change in Swedish R&D Subsidiaries. In Academy of International Business (AIB) Conference, 24-27 June, 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Andersson, D. E., & Tell, F. (2019). From Fighting Monopolies to Promoting Industry: Patent Laws and Innovation in Sweden 1819-1914. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 1.

https://doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2019-0006

Andersson, D., Tell, F., Huila, A., & Ekman, A. (2019). Designing value: Design protection and the market value of firms. In DRUID Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-21 June, 2019.

Andersson, D. E., & Tell, F. (2018). Dependent Invention and Dependent Inventors: Evidence from Historical Swedish Patent Data. In The 18th World Economic History Conference, 29 July-3 August, 2018, Boston, USA.

Tell, F. (2018). The formation of organizational capabilities in a global science-based industry: Some heavy electrical manufacturers in the western world, 1878-1990. In The 18th World Economic History Conference, 29 July-3 August, 2018, Boston, USA.

Tell, F., Berggren, C., Brusoni, S., & Van de Ven, A. H. (Eds.). (2017). Managing knowledge integration across boundaries. Oxford University Press.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/managing-knowledge-integration-across-boundaries-9780198785972?cc=se&lang=en&

Andersson, D. E., & Tell, F. (2016). Patent agencies and the emerging market for patenting services in Sweden, 1885-1914. Entreprises et histoire, 82(1), 11-31.

https://doi.org/10.3917/eh.082.0011

Andersson, D. E. (2016). The emergence of markets for technology: Patent transfers and patenting in Sweden, 1819–1914 (Doctoral dissertation, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University).

https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn%3Anbn%3Ase%3Auu%3Adiva-302772

La Mela, M. (2016). The politics of property in a European periphery: the ownership of books, berries, and patents in the Grand Duchy of Finland 1850-1910 (Doctoral dissertation, European University Institute).

https://doi.org/10.2870/604750