How Smart Is Your State? US States Ranked by Patents per Million People

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Post by graemeklass » Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 1:55 PM UTC

How Smart Is Your State? US States Ranked by Patents per Million People
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Post by edw519 » Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 3:23 PM UTC

I think "cashiers who can make change without a cash register" would be a better measure.

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Post by wastedbrains » Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 3:30 PM UTC

If you don't really agree with software patents this measure doesn't work well...

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Post by graywh » Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 3:36 PM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #2

I think "cashiers who can make change without a cash register" would be a better measure.

A lot of things would be a better measure.

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Post by pg » Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 3:41 PM UTC

This would be a lot better if the colors varied continuously.

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Post by graywh » Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 3:52 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #5

This would be a lot better if the colors varied continuously.

Yes, the graphic could use some help from http://www.colorbrewer.org/.

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Post by gojomo » Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 4:27 PM UTC

wastedbrains wrote: post #3

If you don't really agree with software patents this measure doesn't work well...

I doubt software patents contribute much to the totals, or would change the rankings if left out. Same for business method patents.

And you might disagree with patents entirely but still see them as correlated with a certain type of intelligent opportunism.

Pretty sure Idaho owes its ranking to a few key corporate research groups in patent-heavy fields -- HP, Micron, ?

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Post by scw » Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 5:21 PM UTC

It'd be much better if they de-aggregated this information over the surface to create a true 'heat map'. If they did this, you'd probably see true hotspots of patent innovation which I'll bet correspond nicely to startup hubs.

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Post by chaostheory » Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 5:44 PM UTC

nice, a patent troll ranking for the US

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Post by graemeklass » Wed, Mar 12, 2008, 12:06 AM UTC

For those that want to experiment with the KML file you can download it at http://www.sharcmedia.com/kml/PatentsPerMillion2.kml

Regarding a finer grained heat map it would be cool, but I couldn't find any finer grained data (eg. by US Postcode) on the USPTO site.