An Early National Innovation System: The Case of Antonio Serra’s 1613 Breve Trattato Sophus A. Reinert Carl Schurz Fellow at the Krupp Chair of Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology University of Erfurt Erik S. Reinert The Other Canon Foundation, Norway Published in Institutions and Economic Development/Istituzioni e Sviluppo Economico, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2003.