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10-12-2007, 05:36 PM
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Bay Area leads the nation in patents issued
According to the Wall Street Journal, 2006
Cities ranked by the number of patents issued
1 San Jose, CA 3,867
2 Sunnyvale, CA 1,881
3 Austin, TX 1,705
4 Palo Alto, CA 1,601
5 Fremont, CA 1,440
6 San Diego, CA 1,382
7 Cupertino, CA 1,360
8 Boise, ID
9 Mountain View, CA 1,128
10 Santa Clara, CA 1,096
11 Houston, TX 1,071
12 San Francisco, CA 1,022
13 Portland, OR 784
14 Seattle, WA 756
15 Los Altos, CA 719
16 Rochester, NY 664
17 Plano, TX 643
18 Saratoga, CA 620
19 Menlo Park, CA 619
20 New York, NY 614
//http://www.portlanddev.org/pdf/praise-pubs/top-20-inventive-towns-wsj_7-06.pdf |
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10-12-2007, 07:43 PM
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I guess that should make a few snobs rethink what's a suburb and what's just a city that happens to be closeby...
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10-12-2007, 09:17 PM
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Great post!
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Originally Posted by 18Montclair
According to the Wall Street Journal, 2006
Cities ranked by the number of patents issued
1 San Jose, CA 3,867
2 Sunnyvale, CA 1,881
3 Austin, TX 1,705
4 Palo Alto, CA 1,601
5 Fremont, CA 1,440
6 San Diego, CA 1,382
7 Cupertino, CA 1,360
8 Boise, ID
9 Mountain View, CA 1,128
10 Santa Clara, CA 1,096
11 Houston, TX 1,071
12 San Francisco, CA 1,022
13 Portland, OR 784
14 Seattle, WA 756
15 Los Altos, CA 719
16 Rochester, NY 664
17 Plano, TX 643
18 Saratoga, CA 620
19 Menlo Park, CA 619
20 New York, NY 614
//http://www.portlanddev.org/pdf/praise-pubs/top-20-inventive-towns-wsj_7-06.pdf |
I noticed though that you didn't highlight Mountain View, which is also in the bay area. |
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10-13-2007, 12:10 AM
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Wow, so the Bay Area get issued like what % of patents in the nation? Per capita must be astronomical compared to the rest of the nation.
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