World’s most inventive city
Afp, Eindhoven
From cancer-busting ultrasound techniques to ways to boost vitamins in tomatoes, Dutch tech-hub Eindhoven’s avalanche of patents has just earned it the crown of “most inventive city in the world.”
Despite the Dutch economy hobbling through its third recession since 2009, this southern city of around 750,000 has become a beacon of high-tech hope and is even compared to Silicon Valley in the United States.
With 22.6 patents filed for every 10,000 residents, US-based Forbes magazine this month named Eindhoven the world’s most inventive city.
Using a commonly-used metric for mapping innovation, called ‘patent intensity’, Forbes based its award on statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Despite the Dutch economy hobbling through its third recession since 2009, this southern city of around 750,000 has become a beacon of high-tech hope and is even compared to Silicon Valley in the United States.
With 22.6 patents filed for every 10,000 residents, US-based Forbes magazine this month named Eindhoven the world’s most inventive city.
Using a commonly-used metric for mapping innovation, called ‘patent intensity’, Forbes based its award on statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
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