How Smart Is Your State? US States Ranked by Patents per Million People (sharcmedia.com) 9 points by graemeklass 18y ago ↗ HN
[–] edw519 18y ago ↗ I think "cashiers who can make change without a cash register" would be a better measure. [–] graywh 18y ago ↗ A lot of things would be a better measure.
[–] wastedbrains 18y ago ↗ If you don't really agree with software patents this measure doesn't work well... [–] gojomo 18y ago ↗ 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, ?
[–] gojomo 18y ago ↗ 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, ?
[–] pg 18y ago ↗ This would be a lot better if the colors varied continuously. [–] graywh 18y ago ↗ Yes, the graphic could use some help from http://www.colorbrewer.org/.
[–] scw 18y ago ↗ 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.
[–] graemeklass 18y ago ↗ For those that want to experiment with the KML file you can download it at http://www.sharcmedia.com/kml/PatentsPerMillion2.kmlRegarding 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.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 36.1 ms ] threadAnd 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, ?
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.