Metro Areas(MSA) and Counties by Patents Granted, 2010 (state, better, population)

[18Montclair]

Metropolitan Areas(MSA) by number of patents granted, 2010
500+
1 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 10,074
2 New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA 6,383
3 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 6,290
4 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 4,992
5 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH 4,330
6 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA 4,330
7 San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA 2,993
7 Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL-IN-WI 2,933
8 Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 2,827
9 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX 2,449
10 Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI 2,222
12 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX 2,190
13 Dallas-Ft Worth-Arlington, TX 2,189
14 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 2,102
15 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 1,758
16 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 1,748
17 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 1,656
18 Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ 1,339
19 Rochester, NY 1,273
20 Raleigh-Cary, NC 1,257
21 Miami-Ft Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL 991
22 Boise-Nampa, ID 948
23 Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN 923
24 Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY 825
25 Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO 754
26 Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH 751
27 Pittsburgh, PA 740
28 Albany-Schenetady-Troy, NY 736
29 St Louis, MO-IL 721
30 Baltimore-Towson, MD 711
31 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT 691
32 Bremerton-Silverdale, WA 608
33 Boulder, CO 599
34 Ann Arbor, MI 561
35 Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 559
36 Burlington-South Burlington, VT 558
37 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT 557
38 Kansas City, MO-KS 545
39 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA 530
40 Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA 514

Counties, 1,000+ patents granted in 2010
Santa Clara, CA 10,047
King, WA 3,637
San Diego, CA 2,993
Los Angeles, CA 2,817
Middlesex, MA 2,564
Alameda, CA 2,191
Orange, CA 2,175
Maricopa, AZ 1,314
Oakland, MI 1,276
Wake, NC 1,246
Cook, IL 1,118
Monroe, NY 1,110
Hennepin, MN 1,107
Williamson, TX 1,046

Patenting In Technology Classes, Breakout By U.S. Metropolitan Area (Class ALL, ALL CLASSES), CY 2006 - 2010 Utility Patent Grants Distributed By Year of Grant

U.S. State Patenting (UNITED STATES, ALL REGIONS), Regional Components, CY2006-2010 Utility Patents By Year of Grant

[HenryAlan]

The usual suspects, big surprise.

[ckhthankgod]

Rochester/Monroe County NY is pretty impressive, but it does have a strong innovative community due to its history(Kodak, Bausch and Lomb and Xerox).

[NYMTman]

Unsurprising that Silicon Valley is in the lead. Tech is really humming along.

[rah]

The Bay Area murders the competition, once again (unsurprisingly):

1 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 10,074
3 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 6,290
40 Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA 514

[po-boy]

Interesting stats, thanks for posting. Nice change of pace from population, GDP, and skyline arguments.

San Jose and SF in the top three is what I expected. I didn't realize LA had so much going on in this field though. San Diego is also impressive at #7. California really rules this area.

I would like to see the South do better. Texas does well with three cities (Austin, Houston, & Dallas) in the top 15, but aside from Texas only Atlanta and Raleigh are in the top 20 representing the South. Nashville doesn't even make the list despite a decent presence in the health care industry, and Charlotte isn't on there either.

[po-boy]

On a related note, here is an interesting article about global patents. It shows what a huge percentage are by EU, US, Japan, and China.

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