Useful Stats: Patents Issued per 100,000 Employees by State, FY 2004-2009

SSTI has prepared a table of U.S patents issued per 100,000 employees by state between FY 2004-2009. The table also includes rankings for each year and the percentage change over the entire five-year period. Overall U.S. patenting per 100,000 employees increased 8.4 percent last year, and 2.4 percent between 2004 and 2009. The data reveals few geographic trends, though the three states with the greatest decrease in patenting activity per employee over the five year period were in the U.S. Mountain region. Idaho, South Dakota and Montana experienced the largest percentage declines, though South Dakota and Montana’s generally low patenting rates render the losses less remarkable. Read the full SSTI Weekly Digest article …

Patents Issued per 100,000 Employees by State, FY 2004–2009
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
This table is available in Excel format at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/102710.xls
State	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	2008 patents per 100K workers	2008 rank	2009 patents per 100K workers	2009 rank	% change 2004-2009	5-year rank % change
U.S. Total	72.1		65.0		76.4		69.2		68.2		73.9		2.4%
Alabama	22.2	42	18.9	43	22.3	42	18.3	43	18.3	42	20.6	43	-7.4%	34
Alaska	16.5	46	11.9	48	14.6	49	7.7	51	8.9	51	17.5	44	6.0%	8
Arizona	73.5	16	64.2	16	72.4	17	69.0	17	73.2	14	73.4	16	-0.1%	17
Arkansas	14.2	50	13.3	47	15.8	47	14.4	48	13.0	47	13.6	49	-4.2%	29
California	144.5	2	129.1	3	161.5	2	144.5	3	143.3	3	159.6	4	10.5%	5
Colorado	106.9	8	90.1	8	104.8	9	86.5	11	80.8	13	89.4	11	-16.4%	45
Connecticut	105.6	9	102.0	6	111.1	8	95.5	9	94.5	8	102.8	8	-2.7%	25
Delaware	98.7	10	81.6	12	93.8	12	84.8	12	83.4	11	85.0	13	-13.9%	44
District of Columbia	12.1	51	8.8	51	10.3	51	10.5	50	10.4	50	9.1	51	-25.0%	48
Florida	40.1	30	34.9	29	41.0	30	38.9	27	36.6	30	40.4	29	0.7%	14
Georgia	38.8	31	34.5	31	42.7	29	38.8	28	39.3	28	43.9	27	13.0%	4
Hawaii	14.7	48	9.6	50	16.3	46	13.1	49	16.3	44	16.2	46	10.3%	6
Idaho	308.1	1	252.1	1	266.8	1	210.1	1	184.8	1	160.5	3	-47.9%	51
Illinois	65.9	20	57.4	20	69.6	18	63.2	18	61.3	18	65.1	19	-1.1%	21
Indiana	52.1	25	43.4	26	51.8	25	47.7	25	41.6	26	46.1	26	-11.6%	41
Iowa	51.7	26	43.5	25	49.8	26	44.7	26	43.3	25	50.5	25	-2.4%	24
Kansas	41.6	28	34.9	30	43.8	28	38.5	29	39.8	27	38.6	30	-7.2%	33
Kentucky	26.8	38	21.4	42	26.5	39	28.0	38	26.2	38	26.7	37	-0.2%	19
Louisiana	20.7	44	16.2	45	20.2	45	15.7	47	17.0	43	17.0	45	-17.9%	47
Maine	23.1	41	26.7	37	26.1	40	20.9	42	22.6	40	22.3	41	-3.3%	27
Maryland	58.6	23	51.4	22	61.6	22	55.3	22	56.3	22	58.7	23	0.3%	16
Massachusetts	124.4	4	104.5	5	136.7	5	118.6	6	120.1	6	128.8	5	3.5%	10
Michigan	95.8	11	85.3	11	98.7	11	88.4	10	88.0	9	93.1	10	-2.8%	26
Minnesota	115.2	6	97.8	7	122.4	7	108.7	7	107.1	7	115.7	7	0.4%	15
Mississippi	14.5	49	11.4	49	13.6	50	16.2	46	12.6	49	13.3	50	-7.9%	36
Missouri	34.1	33	27.5	36	32.0	35	31.7	34	29.0	35	33.6	33	-1.3%	22
Montana	32.5	37	28.8	35	31.9	36	30.0	35	26.3	37	21.6	42	-33.5%	49
Nebraska	26.0	39	23.0	40	26.5	38	27.7	39	23.2	39	25.1	39	-3.4%	28
Nevada	41.5	29	36.4	27	37.1	33	36.4	31	37.0	29	37.4	31	-9.9%	40
New Hampshire	111.0	7	86.7	10	104.7	10	98.1	8	83.7	10	100.5	9	-9.5%	39
New Jersey	86.6	13	72.4	14	91.8	13	79.6	13	82.5	12	86.4	12	-0.2%	18
New Mexico	50.4	27	35.1	28	43.9	27	37.0	30	35.7	31	41.6	28	-17.5%	46
New York	80.0	14	63.6	17	76.0	15	70.4	15	68.6	16	73.4	15	-8.2%	37
North Carolina	54.9	24	47.7	23	56.3	24	49.4	24	53.3	23	60.1	22	9.4%	7
North Dakota	20.6	45	24.7	39	22.9	41	26.9	40	20.5	41	26.3	38	28.0%	2
Ohio	64.6	21	51.4	21	62.0	21	57.7	21	60.3	19	61.1	21	-5.3%	32
Oklahoma	34.3	32	29.3	33	38.7	31	34.3	32	30.7	33	29.8	36	-13.2%	43
Oregon	123.3	5	111.9	4	149.2	4	132.1	5	126.8	5	125.3	6	1.6%	11
Pennsylvania	58.7	22	45.9	24	56.9	23	52.8	23	50.4	24	56.1	24	-4.4%	30
Rhode Island	77.4	15	65.4	15	73.70	16	79.1	14	64.5	17	68.0	18	-12.2%	42
South Carolina	33.0	36	29.6	32	37.2	32	28.7	37	27.9	36	32.8	34	-0.7%	20
South Dakota	23.8	40	18.1	44	20.6	44	16.8	44	15.1	45	14.4	48	-39.6%	50
Tennessee	33.0	35	26.6	38	29.9	37	28.9	36	29.3	34	30.6	35	-7.4%	35
Texas	66.9	19	57.7	19	67.7	20	60.9	20	59.2	21	63.4	20	-5.3%	31
Utah	73.1	17	57.7	18	68.3	19	62.8	19	59.5	20	73.9	14	1.0%	12
Vermont	143.4	3	136.6	2	160.3	3	179.9	2	169.8	2	171.0	2	19.2%	3
Virginia	33.8	34	28.8	34	33.9	34	31.7	33	32.3	32	34.1	32	0.8%	13
Washington	90.6	12	89.7	9	127.0	6	133.1	4	140.9	4	171.2	1	88.9%	1
West Virginia	16.2	47	14.1	46	15.7	48	16.4	45	12.8	48	14.7	47	-8.8%	38
Wisconsin	72.7	18	78.4	13	77.7	14	69.3	16	69.3	15	71.4	17	-1.9%	23
Wyoming	22.2	43	21.6	41	21.0	43	22.3	41	14.3	46	23.3	40	5.1%	9