Where Are the Inventors?
small-time inventors remain a potent force — consistently accounting for about 15% of all U.S. patents in recent years What is changing: their ZIP Codes .. Adam B. Jaffe, the dean of arts and sciences at Brandeis University, studied patents to find out how often inventions in the same metropolitan area cite one another. The answer: up to 25% in some cases. … the apparent leader in percent increases in numbers – Bloomfield Hills, Mich. “The automotive industry stinks but the brains are still here.” Still, the clear champ is the Silicon Valley with seven of the top ten cities that total many times the third city Austin TX.
