No British Regions in the World's Top 10 Science and Technology Hotspots

WIPO Head Office in Geneva
Author Merarton
Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 International
Source Wikipedia WIPO
























Jane Lambert

On 7 Jan 2019, the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") published a list of The World’s Top 10 Science and Technology Hotspots.  A "hotspot" is essentially a city or region with a leading university and cluster of high tech businesses,  The WIPO ranks these hotspots by the number of scientific papers and international patent applications that originate from the city or region.  For example, from the Tokyo-Yokohama region, which is the world's leading hotspot, there were 141,584 publications and 104,746 patent filings. The University of Tokyo was the leading scientific organization and Mitsubishi Electric the top applicant in that region.

The list is as follows:
  • #10 San Diego
  • #9 Paris
  • #8 New York
  • #7 Boston-Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • #6 Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto
  • #5 Beijing
  • #4 San Jose-San Francisco
  • #3  Seoul
  • #2 Shenzhen-Hong Kong
  • #1 Tokyo-Yokohama.
A longer list appears in Table B Top cluster of economies or cross-border regions within the top 50 in the Global Innovation Index for 2018.  London is number 15 in that table, Moscow number 30 and Tehran number 44 ahead of Milan and Zurich.  The Index states that the USA has 26 clusters in that list, China 16, Germany 8, the UK 4 and Canada 4.

Global patenting and publication activity is represented in the maps in Figure H of the Index which appear on the page after Table B in the Index. Japan, China, Korea and the USA appear to be the biggest sources of PCT applications though there is significant activity in Continental Europe and the UK. However, the UK appears to be one of the main sources of scientific publications.

Anyone wishing to discuss this article or innovation generally should call me on 020 7404 5252 or send me a message through my contact page.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Learning the Law at St Andrews - Mooting

Image
St Salvator's College Author Andy Hawkins   Licence CC BY-SA 2.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Although St Andrews lost its law school in 1967 when Queen's College became the University of Dundee, St Andrews graduates continued to enter the legal professions of all parts of the United Kingdom and many other countries.  Their entry into the law is eased by the University of St Andrews Law Society  a student organization supported by Herbert Smith Freehills  and other leading law firms .  The Society holds activities that prepare students for law school and a career in the law including moots, talks and workshops.   I was invited to return to St Andrews on Monday 4 Nov 2024, to judge a mooting competition.  I sat with Mike Gettinby  Chief Legal Officer at the University of St Andrews and  Paulina Kachalova , Mistress of the Moots, to judge one contest and with Callum Friel , Master of the Moots, to judge the other.  The issue was whether a creditor in financial diffic
Read more

IP and Brexit: the Fashion Industry

Image
Jane Lambert Our IP system, which is ranked by TaylorWessing as one of the best in the world (see The Global Intellectual Property Index ) consists of some rights that subsist under national law and others that subsist under EU law. When we eventually leave the EU, those rights that subsist under EU law such as the EU trade mark and the Community design will fall away. I discussed those consequences generally in What Sort of IP Framework do we need after Brexit and what are we likely to get?   3 July 2016. In this article I consider how those changes will affect the British fashion industry which relies on EU trade marks and Community designs more than most. I have chosen this industry because I have conducted seminars on IP and fashion in London and Leeds (see  IP and Fashion Law   12 Sept 2015 London IP and Tech,  IP and Fashion Seminar - 7 Oct 2015   20 Sept 2015 and  Second Course on IP and the Fashion Industry   27 May 2016), Importance of the British Fashion In
Read more

Perhaps the Most Complex World IP Day Theme Ever

Image
  jane Lambert World Intellectual Property Day is a worldwide celebration of the legal protection of innovation and creativity that takes place on or around the 26 April of every year.  That day has been chosen because it is the anniversary of the day on which the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization  came into force.  The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO")  is the United Nations specialist agency for intellectual property. Every year World IP Day revolves around a special theme.  In 2021 it was  IP & SMEs: Taking your ideas to market .  In 2022 it was IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future .  Last year it was Women and IP: accelerating innovation and creativity .  This year it is  IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity  which is certainly the most complex and arguably the most ambitious theme ever, "SDGs" stand for "Sustainable Development Goals"  which were adopt
Read more