William Pentland, Forbes – 03.10.08
[...] The cities on this list aren’t the places you’d expect to be up-and-coming centers for the next generation of technologies,” said Auerswald, “But 30 years ago, few would have imagined Las Vegas as the center of a real estate boom.”
Auerswald surveyed specific pockets of science–including advanced materials, nano-crystals and quantum dots, polymers and plastics, micro-systems and cell microbiology–that most experts consider today’s most promising frontiers of innovation.
Borrowing a method devised by Anthony Breitzman, a researcher at 1790 Analytics, an intellectual-property valuation firm, Auerswald then looked for important relationships among patents within each general technical area. The most important patents are generally referenced by other inventors in the field when they file for their own patents; lesser patents garner fewer citations. The greater the increase in the number of important patents in a given city, the higher it ranked on Auerswald’s list. [...] more
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