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State Innovation Profile
Maryland
Proximity to federal agencies and Johns Hopkins creates a unique biomedical and cybersecurity innovation cluster.
2
Universities
~2,330
Available Technologies
$5.7B
R&D Spending (NSF, FY2024)
241
US Patents Granted (Latest Year)
Technology Sectors
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2 Maryland Universities
31 startups in the latest year (2 reporting)
Johns Hopkins Universityprivate
Baltimore, Maryland
Johns Hopkins is a world leader in medical research and biotechnology commercialization, with the largest research budget of any US university.
BiomedicalDiagnosticsPharmaceuticalsMedical Devices
144
US Patents
$4.1B
R&D
University of Marylandpublic
College Park, Maryland
University of Maryland is a leading public research university with strong commercialization in cybersecurity, aerospace, and biomedical sciences.
CybersecurityAerospaceBiomedicalComputing
97
US Patents
$1.5B
R&D
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