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Table 1.

Source base

Source	Type	Provenance	Period	Role in the analysis
Marconi’s writings, memoirs and correspondence, including the letters to Giuseppe Marconi of March and April 1896	Primary – corporate and personal	Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi, Digital Archives, Villa Griffone, Pontecchio Marconi	1896 – onwards	Formation of the enterprise; the firm’s self-presentation; entrepreneurial strategy
British patent no. 12039 and subsequent filings, including patent no. 7,777 (1900) and US patent no. 586,193 (1897)	Primary – legal	Patent record	1896 – 1900	Construction of legal and technological exclusivity
Italian parliamentary documents; records concerning the Italian Navy and government	Primary – official	Italian Parliament acts, Ministry of Marine Archives	1903 – 1904	Agreements and institutional dependency; defence of the non-intercommunication clause; lock-in and legitimation
Documents of the British Government and the British General Post Office	Primary – official	British Parliament acts	1898 – 1912	Concession terms and institutional dependency; lock-in
Documents de la Conférence préliminaire concernant la télégraphie sans fil	Primary – printed official	Reichsdruckerei, Berlin; English translation by Neilson (1904)	1903	The dispute over non-intercommunication; geopolitical extension
Documents de la Conférence radiotélégraphique internationale de Berlin	Primary – printed official	Reichsdruckerei, Berlin	1906	Multilateral negotiation; geopolitical extension
Guagnini (2006); Balbi (2012); Baker (2013); Raboy (2016); Arapostathis and Gooday (2013)	Secondary – historiography	Published scholarship	–	Corroboration and context; detail on the Italian negotiating position

Source	Type	Provenance	Period	Role in the analysis
Marconi’s writings, memoirs and correspondence, including the letters to Giuseppe Marconi of March and April 1896	Primary – corporate and personal	Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi, Digital Archives, Villa Griffone, Pontecchio Marconi	1896 – onwards	Formation of the enterprise; the firm’s self-presentation; entrepreneurial strategy
British patent no. 12039 and subsequent filings, including patent no. 7,777 (1900) and US patent no. 586,193 (1897)	Primary – legal	Patent record	1896 – 1900	Construction of legal and technological exclusivity
Italian parliamentary documents; records concerning the Italian Navy and government	Primary – official	Italian Parliament acts, Ministry of Marine Archives	1903 – 1904	Agreements and institutional dependency; defence of the non-intercommunication clause; lock-in and legitimation
Documents of the British Government and the British General Post Office	Primary – official	British Parliament acts	1898 – 1912	Concession terms and institutional dependency; lock-in
Documents de la Conférence préliminaire concernant la télégraphie sans fil	Primary – printed official	Reichsdruckerei, Berlin; English translation by Neilson (1904)	1903	The dispute over non-intercommunication; geopolitical extension
Documents de la Conférence radiotélégraphique internationale de Berlin	Primary – printed official	Reichsdruckerei, Berlin	1906	Multilateral negotiation; geopolitical extension
Guagnini (2006); Balbi (2012); Baker (2013); Raboy (2016); Arapostathis and Gooday (2013)	Secondary – historiography	Published scholarship	–	Corroboration and context; detail on the Italian negotiating position

Source(s): Author own work