Fig. 8
From: Digital technologies, technological improvement rates, and innovations “Made in Switzerland”
Average technological improvement rates for digital patents across industries and countries for different percentile subsets. 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. The plot shows average improvement rates for patents whose improvement rate is above the xth percentile of a given country. For comparison, the dots labelled as all show the averages across all patents as used in the main text