Fig. 11
From: Digital technologies, technological improvement rates, and innovations “Made in Switzerland”
Average technological improvement rates of all patents of different industries for different percentile subsets. Notes: Calculations based on improvement rates of 1757 technologies taken from Singh et al. (2021) that were matched to USPTO patents between 2010 and 2015. The average technological improvement rate is normalized according to the value of Switzerland. The plot shows average improvement rates for patents whose improvement rate is above the xth percentile of a given country. For comparison, the dots labeled as all show the averages across all patents as used in the main text