Allegedly there were isolated precursors before the Netherlands, namely in Toulouse. Granted it really took off in the Netherlands. It seems the concept was inv

Allegedly there were isolated precursors before the Netherlands, namely in Toulouse. Granted it really took off in the Netherlands. It seems the concept was invented independantly serveral times. http://blog.yalebooks.com/2015/08/11/the-worlds-first-corporations-mills-in-fourteenth-century-toulouse/ http://blog.yalebooks.com/2015/08/11/the-worlds-first-corpor... https://qz.com/219270/bazacle/ https://qz.com/219270/bazacle/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazacle_Milling_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazacle_Milling_Company https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304405X18302836 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03044...