In 2009, when worked for the Region of Peel government, Canada, we successfully used patent mapping to identify 20 US patent intensive companies as the potential employers for highly educated immigrants. Following this initiative, we have created and been maintaining a Canadian patent competitive intelligence (CI) database to track the latest patent competence of over 3000 Canadian entities on a weekly basis. This database provides intelligence for long-term strategic research planning and short-term tactics.

1. Muchiu (Henry) Chang, PhD. Cantab. [email_address] June 21, 2011 Canadian Competitive Intelligence Database (with updated part only)

3. Figure 1, Patent Statistics by Host City © Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2011

4. Figure 2, Annual Patent Statistics by Provinces © Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2011

5. Figure 3, Annual Patent Statistics of Sectors of the top 22 GTA Potential Employers © Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2011