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São Paulo, Among the Top 100 Science & Technology Clusters in the World
By Dannemann Siemsen
A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) report revealed the world's top 100 science and technology (S&T) clusters.
China, for the second consecutive year, led with the most clusters (26) in the top 100. The United States followed closely behind with 20 clusters, while seven middle-income economies had clusters among the top 100: Brazil, with São Paulo, ranked 73rd among the top 100 and was the sole top 100 S&T cluster within Latin America.
The WIPO survey shows that, among patent applications in São Paulo, practically half (49%) are for medical technology (10%), organic fine chemistry (8%), other machines (8%), molecular chemistry (6%), basic materials chemistry (6%), pharmaceuticals (6%) and handling (5%).
"Science and technology clusters serve as the foundation of robust national innovation ecosystems. It is encouraging to see these clusters thriving not just in the mature hubs of industrialized nations, but also in the emerging innovation hotspots of selected developing economies. WIPO will continue to help these clusters to use IP to translate promising research into tangible, real-world solutions", stated WIPO Director General Daren Tang.
The ranking was measured using patent filing and scientific publishing data to identify local concentrations of world-leading science and technology activity.
Tokyo-Yokohama (Japan) is the largest global S&T cluster, followed by Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou (China and Hong Kong, China). Beijing (China) moved up one rank from last year to take the third position.
Dannemann Siemsen
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