{"id":6276,"date":"2007-09-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/09\/08\/more-indians-in-us-turn-inventors-says-study\/"},"modified":"2007-09-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T12:00:00","slug":"more-indians-in-us-turn-inventors-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/09\/08\/more-indians-in-us-turn-inventors-says-study\/","title":{"rendered":"More Indians In US Turn Inventors, Says Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/businessline\/blnus\/00051606.htm\">www.thehindubusinessline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 5, 2007: Indian immigrants in the United States are making a strong mark for themselves with an ever-increasing number turning into inventors in the country, a recent study says. According to a report prepared by a team of researchers from Harvard, Duke and New York Universities, the number of Indian nationals contributing to US international patent applications touched 5.5 percent in 2006. This is a sharp rise compared to just 1.6 percent in 1998. Indians constitute less than one percent of the US population. &#8220;During this period, there was a large influx of highly educated Indians into the US and they contributed immensely to the intellectual capital of American corporations and universities,&#8221; Mr. Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at the Harvard Law School and executive-in-residence at Duke University, one of the authors of the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Analyzing the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications from the US at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the researchers found contribution of inventors with Indian-heritage names increased to 13.7 percent from 9.5 percent during 1998-2006 period. Besides, Indian and Chinese inventors file most patents in the fields of sanitation, medical preparations, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and electronics. &#8220;Indian-born entrepreneurs in the US founded more engineering and technology firms (from 1995-2005) than the next immigrant groups&#8211;from UK, China, Taiwan and Japan combined,&#8221; the report also reveals.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.thehindubusinessline.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 5, 2007: Indian immigrants in the United States are making a strong mark for themselves,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}