According to KUER Local News, the new hot spot for inventions is the University of Utah. It's tied with MIT for being first in the nation for spawning new startup companies. Their graduate students went on to start companies like Silicon Graphics, Pixar, Adobe and Netscape. In 2008, Utah U's research led to the formation of twenty new companies, nearly seven times the national average of three for a university. I was happy to read that Utah U has a long history of hiring inventors including: Willem Kolff who developed the first artificial kidney and artificial heart transplant.
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Indeed, according to a newspaper article I’ve got clipped from Salt Lake Tribune, Utah was third in patent production per capita in 2009 in the intermountain West, and second when you remove Micron’s patents from the equation. Here is a link to the online article: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/49446024-79/patents-patent-utah-companies.html.csp