Innovation hot spots: mining patent data for tomorrow's breakthroughs
Our IP Market Report on innovation hot spots shows that areas of sharpest growth include biofuels based on algae, cell phone data/wireless network roaming and lab-on-a-chip nanotechnology.
To find out the form that future innovations will take, Thomson Reuters tracked hot spots of innovation through the first quarter of 2009, analyzing global patenting activity in fields that have shown significant growth over the past several years. By tracking the total numbers of unique inventions in published patent applications and granted patents from 2003 to 2009, researchers were able to identify segments of the R&D landscape that are receiving growing attention from inventors even in the midst of a worldwide recession. The resulting IP Market Report summarizes the findings of that research, and shows areas of the sharpest growth to include biofuels based on algae, cell phone data/wireless network roaming and lab-on-a-chip nanotechnology.
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