In 2009, when working for the government of Region of Peel, Canada, we successfully used patent mapping to identify 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 2600 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] July 20, 2010 Canadian Competitive Intelligence Database

10. Figure 1, Patent Statistics by Hosting Cities Source: our study © Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2010

11. Figure 2 , Annual Patent Statistics by Provinces Source: our study © Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2010

12. Figure 3 , 2004-2009 Cumulative Patent Distribution by Sectors for the 21 GTA Potential Employers Source: our study © Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2010

13. Figure 4 , Annual Patent Statistics of Sectors of the 21 GTA Potential Employers Source: our study © Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2010

16. References [1] “ Integrated Change Management Approach in the Knowledge Economic Epoch”, Muchiu (Henry) Chang, to be published on “Practice Periodical, Summer, 2010, American Society for Engineering Management” [2] “ Sun Tzu and sustainable competitive advantage”, Muchiu Chang, Engineering Management Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International, Oct. 2004 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1407095 [3] “Quantum computation patent mapping - a strategic view for the information technique of tomorrow”, Muchiu Chang, Proceedings of ICSSSM '05, 2005 International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management, June 2005 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1500183 [4] "Imports, exports and trade balance of goods on a balance-of-payments basis, by country or country grouping“, Statistics Canada http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/gblec02a.htm © Muchiu (Henry) Chang 2010