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

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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.

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