The
most inventive states are ranked by number of patents per thousand people. The
leading state? Not California, but Vermont—the home of a large IBM plant as
well as the University of Vermont. Vermont has a whopping 3.51 patents per
thousand people. Vermont also likely benefits from its proximity to
Massachusetts, the 2nd ranked
state, which is home to Harvard University and MIT. Other highly ranked states
close to Massachusetts include New Hampshire (8th)
and Connecticut (9th).
Delaware (10th) is home
to DuPont. California, the home of Stanford, Cal Tech and the University of
California system, is 3rdand the
nearby top ten states include Washington (5th)
and Oregon (7th).
Notably, Washington boasts the patentee Microsoft. The states that are perhaps
not as close to Massachusetts and California that rank in the top 10 are
Minnesota (4th) and
Idaho (6th).
Minnesota hosts 3M and Idaho is home to Micron Technology. States that have
well known technology sectors that are not in the top 10 are Texas (21st)
and North Carolina (22nd). The
states at the bottom are Alaska (50th),
Mississippi (49th) and
West Virginia (48th).
The
State Entrepreneurship Index ranks states by the following factors: “Percent
growth in employer establishments; Percent growth in employer establishments
per person; Business formation rate (i.e, establishment births per person); Patents
per thousand persons; Average income per non-farm proprietor.” The top ten
entrepreneurship states are: 1. Massachusetts; 2. North Dakota; 3. California;
4. New York; 5. Minnesota; 6. Oregon; 7. New Jersey; 8. Texas; 9. Illinois; 10.
New Hampshire. The states at the bottom are Louisiana (50th),
Michigan (49th) and
South Carolina (48th).
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