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Map 12.2 Annual rate of change in WIPO patent applications by inventors between Y2005 and
Y2008 ( Source : The author)
the vicinity of Tampere) evidence the highest levels of patent production in 2000. In
short the annual rate of patenting applications between 2005 and 2008 (Map 12.2 )
illustrates that the highest average rates of change occurred outside the highest
patent producing regions of Europe observed in 2008 (Map 12.1 ). Data for 2008 in
Map 12.1 enables identification of regions where patenting is high and thus ones
where the potential for innovative clusters is strong. For example, the South of
Sweden evidences a high rate of patenting. However, its rate of patenting from
2005-2008 (see Map 12.2 ) is quite modest. A working hypothesis based on this data
could be formulated that this region is either in the latter part of the exploitive
expansion stage of the life-cycle or may be prematurely moving toward exhaustion.
This suggests the need for additional analysis to further document these
possibilities, for example from data for the seven dimensions of the cluster life-
cycle methodology. If additional analysis were to support either of the above
possibilities (exhaustion or pre-mature exhaustion) leadership to help reinvigorate
the cluster including a plan would be implied.
Map 12.2 data also points to other possibilities, for example, the Pais Vasco
region in the Basque Country in Spain. Pais Vasco exhibits a modest level of
patenting performance in 2008 but the rate of growth from 2005-2008 is one of
the highest in Europe. This suggests that Pais Vasco has passed through the take-off
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