Newsletters CHI'S Research, Vol. An informal, periodic newsletter to keep our clients and colleagues informed of interesting findings at CHI Research. This newsletter draws data from a Regional Tech-Line report comparing the 18 cities, or more precisely MSA's, having more than 1,000 patents between 1993 and 1997.
Silicon Valley is America's technological powerhouse.
Regional Tech-Line demonstrates that computer manufacturers and semiconductor firms tend to patent more than software companies. Patenting growth rates are lower in high-tech cities such as Salt Lake City and Seattle although each houses more than 2,000 software firms led by the likes of Novell, Iomega, Evans and Sutherland, and Microsoft. Figure 2 plots data from a Regional Tech-Line state report to answer this question for California. For the 5 fastest growing and 5 fastest declining technologies, the figure displays the percentage growth in patenting between the two five year periods ending 1992 and 1997. Patenting in biotechnology and computers more than doubled during this period.