Patents Issued per 100,000 Employees by State, FY 2003–2007
Sources: Quarterly Census of Employees and Wages, Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/cew/
Patent Counts by Country/State and Year, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/cst_all.pdf
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Note: U.S. total includes Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
State	2003 patents per 100K workers	2003 rank	2004 patents per 100K workers	2004 rank	2005 patents per 100K workers	2005 rank	2006 patents per 100K workers	2006 rank	2007 patents per 100K workers	2007 rank	% change 2003-2007	5-year rank % change
U.S. Total	77.1		72.1		65.0		76.4		69.2		-10.3
Alabama	25.2	42	22.2	42	18.9	43	22.3	42	18.3	43	-27.1	44
Alaska	14.7	50	16.5	46	11.9	48	14.6	49	7.7	51	-47.6	51
Arizona	75.5	16	73.5	16	64.2	16	72.4	17	69.0	17	-8.7	15
Arkansas	15.8	49	14.2	50	13.3	47	15.8	47	14.4	48	-8.7	16
California	149.1	3	144.5	2	129.1	3	161.5	2	144.5	3	-3.1	9
Colorado	108.8	9	106.9	8	90.1	8	104.8	9	86.5	11	-20.5	36
Connecticut	113.4	8	105.6	9	102.0	6	111.1	8	95.5	9	-15.8	31
Delaware	92.5	13	98.7	10	81.6	12	93.8	12	84.8	12	-8.3	14
District of Columbia	7.7	51	12.1	51	8.8	51	10.3	51	10.5	50	36.3	3
Florida	43.0	28	40.1	30	34.9	29	41.0	30	38.9	27	-9.6	19
Georgia	40.5	30	38.8	31	34.5	31	42.7	29	38.8	28	-4.4	12
Hawaii	16.9	48	14.7	48	9.6	50	16.3	46	13.1	49	-22.3	41
Idaho	321.2	1	308.1	1	252.1	1	266.8	1	210.1	1	-34.6	49
Illinois	69.5	19	65.9	20	57.4	20	69.6	18	63.2	18	-9.0	17
Indiana	59.5	25	52.1	25	43.4	26	51.8	25	47.7	25	-19.9	35
Iowa	68.1	22	51.7	26	43.5	25	49.8	26	44.7	26	-34.4	48
Kansas	38.2	32	41.6	28	34.9	30	43.8	28	38.5	29	0.8	7
Kentucky	29.0	39	26.8	38	21.4	42	26.5	39	28.0	38	-3.3	10
Louisiana	23.7	44	20.7	44	16.2	45	20.2	45	15.7	47	-33.5	47
Maine	27.7	40	23.1	41	26.7	37	26.1	40	20.9	42	-24.6	43
Maryland	64.9	24	58.6	23	51.4	22	61.6	22	55.3	22	-14.7	29
Massachusetts	133.4	4	124.4	4	104.5	5	136.7	5	118.6	6	-11.1	22
Michigan	97.7	11	95.8	11	85.3	11	98.7	11	88.4	10	-9.5	18
Minnesota	126.5	5	115.2	6	97.8	7	122.4	7	108.7	7	-14.1	28
Mississippi	16.9	47	14.5	49	11.4	49	13.6	50	16.2	46	-3.9	11
Missouri	36.2	36	34.1	33	27.5	36	32.0	35	31.7	34	-12.5	24
Montana	31.8	38	32.5	37	28.8	35	31.9	36	30.0	35	-5.5	13
Nebraska	27.5	41	26.0	39	23.0	40	26.5	38	27.7	39	0.6	8
Nevada	42.2	29	41.5	29	36.4	27	37.1	33	36.4	31	-13.7	26
New Hampshire	121.0	6	111.0	7	86.7	10	104.7	10	98.1	8	-18.9	34
New Jersey	101.9	10	86.6	13	72.4	14	91.8	13	79.6	13	-21.8	39
New Mexico	54.3	27	50.4	27	35.1	28	43.9	27	37.0	30	-31.8	46
New York	84.1	14	80.0	14	63.6	17	76.0	15	70.4	15	-16.3	32
North Carolina	58.4	26	54.9	24	47.7	23	56.3	24	49.4	24	-15.4	30
North Dakota	19.7	46	20.6	45	24.7	39	22.9	41	26.9	40	36.5	2
Ohio	73.7	17	64.6	21	51.4	21	62.0	21	57.7	21	-21.7	38
Oklahoma	39.9	31	34.3	32	29.3	33	38.7	31	34.3	32	-14.1	27
Oregon	119.4	7	123.3	5	111.9	4	149.2	4	132.1	5	10.6	6
Pennsylvania	65.1	23	58.7	22	45.9	24	56.9	23	52.8	23	-18.8	33
Rhode Island	68.8	21	77.4	15	65.4	15	73.70	16	79.1	14	15.1	4
South Carolina	36.8	34	33.0	36	29.6	32	37.2	32	28.7	37	-22.2	40
South Dakota	24.4	43	23.8	40	18.1	44	20.6	44	16.8	44	-31.1	45
Tennessee	37.4	33	33.0	35	26.6	38	29.9	37	28.9	36	-22.8	42
Texas	69.3	20	66.9	19	57.7	19	67.7	20	60.9	20	-12.1	23
Utah	69.6	18	73.1	17	57.7	18	68.3	19	62.8	19	-9.7	20
Vermont	158.3	2	143.4	3	136.6	2	160.3	3	179.9	2	13.7	5
Virginia	36.5	35	33.8	34	28.8	34	33.9	34	31.7	33	-13.2	25
Washington	94.8	12	90.6	12	89.7	9	127.0	6	133.1	4	40.3	1
West Virginia	20.8	45	16.2	47	14.1	46	15.7	48	16.4	45	-21.0	37
Wisconsin	77.5	15	72.7	18	78.4	13	77.7	14	69.3	16	-10.5	21
Wyoming	34.8	37	22.2	43	21.6	41	21.0	43	22.3	41	-35.8	50