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] February 21, 2012 Canadian Competitive Intelligence Database (with updated part only)

3. Figure 1, US Patent Statistics by Geographical Areas

4. Figure 2, Annual Patent Statistics by Provinces

5. Figure 3, Annual Patent Statistics of Sectors of the top 22 GTA Potential Employers