China leads with the most top 100 science and technology clusters in the world for the second consecutive year, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) reported Tuesday.
The report showed that China has 26 of the world's top 100 science and technology clusters, up from 24 last year. The United States is next with 20, Germany with eight, and India and South Korea with four each.
According to the report, seven of the top 10 science and technology clusters in the world are in Asia and three are in the United States. Japan's Tokyo-Yokohama city cluster topped the list, followed by China's Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou city cluster. China's Beijing rose to third place. In sixth place, San Jose–San Francisco, California is the leading U.S. cluster.
The WIPO examines the density of patent-filing and articles published in scientific research journals to identify and rank the leading geographical areas in global sci-tech invention and innovation activities. For the ranking this year, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster filed 2,303 patent cooperation treaty applications per 1 million inhabitants from 2019 to 2023 and published 3,469 scientific articles per 1 million inhabitants from 2018 to 2022, both increasing from the previous cycles.
Daren Tang, WIPO's director general, said that science and technology clusters are the important basis of national innovation ecosystems, which are not only thriving in developed countries, but also gradually rising in emerging economies. He said WIPO will continue to help these clusters to use IP to translate promising research into tangible, real-world solutions.
China has most top 100 science and tech clusters globally: WIPO
China has most top 100 science and tech clusters globally: WIPO
