Abstract

Innovation Clusters: A Study of Patents and Citations
Track: Census and Geodemographics
Author(s): Indraneel Kumar

Patents and citations are considered as variables of innovation and used for studying the flow of knowledge between geographic regions. This study looks into the distribution of patents in Indiana, their inventors, the citations database and how these patents have made citations-to or received citations-from other patents all across the U.S.

The study focuses on a 14 county region in Indiana known as the WIRED region (Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development), a workforce development program of the U.S. Department of Labor, and one of 17 industry clusters (biomedical/biotechnical cluster) identified during a previous study funded by the US Economic Development Administration. Data from several sources, such as Workforce Innovation Technical Solutions (WITS), United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), are explored through GIS to understand the geographic regions of innovation and the flow of knowledge.

Indraneel Kumar
Purdue Center for Regional Development, Purdue University
1201 W. State Street
West Lafayette , Indiana 47907
United States
Phone: 765-494-9485
E-mail: ikumar@purdue.edu