While innovative activities related to IP and other areas have grown increasingly collaborative and transnational worldwide, they more often than not originate from a small number of metropolitan hot spots in just five countries, according to a report published by the WIPO last week.
Between 2015 and 2017, some 30 metropolitan hot spots accounted for 69 percent of all patents and 48 percent of scientific activity, the report said. Most of these hot spots were located in China, Germany, Japan, South Korea and the United States, according to the 2019 edition of WIPO's World Intellectual Property Report, which is based on the analysis of millions of patent and scientific publication records across several decades.
The top 10 metropolitan hot spots with most international collaboration were San Francisco-San Jose, New York, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Boston, Shanghai, London, Beijing, Bengaluru and Paris. They together accounted for 26 percent of all international co-inventions.
The rise of these hot spots has coincided with a growing interregional polarization of incomes, high-skilled employment and wages within countries, the report said. As for regions that have fallen behind, the report called for regional support and development policies to play an important role.
Source: Xinhua
