Identifying and ranking the world's largest clusters of inventive activity

Kyle Bergquist, Julio Raffo and Carsten Fink
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Kyle Bergquist: Economics and Statistics Division, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

No 34, WIPO Economic Research Working Papers from World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division

Abstract: This paper presents an empirical approach to identifying and ranking the world’s largest clusters of inventive activity on the basis of patent filings. Patent data offer rich information on the locality of innovative activity. Many researchers have already made use of these data to study individual clusters or selected clusters within a particular region. Our approach goes beyond existing work by identifying and ranking innovation clusters on an internationally comparable basis.

Keywords: innovation; clusters; innovation geography; patents. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2017-05
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