Top Prolific Inventors
Most Innovative Cities
1. San Jose
153,138
2. San Francisco
85,980
3. Sunnyvale
79,731
4. San Diego
76,966
5. Palo Alto
60,692
6. Mountain View
58,660
7. Fremont
54,180
8. Cupertino
48,666
9. Santa Clara
48,390
10. Los Altos
29,737
Innovative Companies
42,168
30,673
25,824
23,945
17,216
10,966
9,519
9,145
7,097
6,927
Top Universities
1. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
10,079
2. The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
3,502
3. California Institute of Technology
3,107
4. University of Southern California
1,166
5. LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
150
6. Stanford University
45
7. Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California
41
8. SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
35
9. Santa Clara University
29
10. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
19