Is Europe Losing the Race?

Look at it another way, if we add up the named inventors qualifying for the Cintelliq league tables above, we find that East Asia and the USA both had nearly twice as many winners as Europe. Some say that such analysis is misleading because the East Asians, in particular, patent trivia much of the time. IDTechEx finds no evidence of this but we are able to compare the continents in other ways too. Our new report Printed and Thin Film Transistors expresses the opinion that there are about 200 organizations worldwide doing serious work that can lead to printed transistors and memory. This is potentially the biggest sector of printed electronics, just as silicon transistors and memory are the biggest sector of conventional electronics. The report looks closely at 150 of these organizations. Where are they located? The chart below gives the figures.