Idaho Universities and Patents
April 6, 2006 on 10:09 pm | In Current Affairs |Earlier today the USPTO released its list of top universities (patents). Here’s the top 5:
- University of California (390 patents)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (136 patents)
- California Institute of Technology (101 patents)
- Stanford University (90 patents)
- University of Texas (90 patents) (tied for fourth)
How did Idaho’s universities do?
- Idaho Research Foundation, Inc. (University of Idaho) = 3 patents
- Boise State University = 0 patents
- Idaho State University = 0 patents
Feel free to correct my data…perhaps I wasn’t searching for the right entities.
Idaho may be #1 per capita for patents…but it isn’t via our universities.
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Steve,
I believe your numbers are accurate and even more troubling is that this is the result of more than $150 million in research annually at these institutions. There are rumors that faculty from at least two of these universities are running businesses created from this work from campus with little if any benefit to the public.
Comment by Rick Ritter — April 18, 2006 #