Fig. 4
From: Digital technologies, technological improvement rates, and innovations “Made in Switzerland”
Average technological improvement rates for digital patents of different industries and countries. Notes: Calculations based on improvement rates of 1757 technologies taken from Singh et al. (2021) and the definition for digital IPC classes from Inaba and Squicciarini (2017) that were both matched to USPTO patents between 2010 and 2015. The average technological improvement rate is normalized according to the value of Switzerland