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Indicator : Nanotechnology patents in EPO (Patent)
Description : The indicator shows the number of nanotechnology granted patents in EPO. According to ISO/TS 18110 (First Edition 2015-08-15), the definition of nanotechnology patents is “patents that include at least one claim related to nanotechnology or patents classified with an IPC classification code related to nanotechnology such as B82.
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Nanotechnology patents in EPO (Patent)

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 [June]
World 243 345 471 493 483 582 613 728 747 852 1,001 1,133 1,255 1,289 1,415 2,006 2,386 2,908 3,155 3,138 2,888 2,142 2,716 1,447
1 USA 76 116 157 174 169 176 208 219 227 266 271 306 350 361 421 577 669 856 962 952 879 660 801 416
2 South Korea 1 0 1 6 88 14 21 32 40 34 35 49 55 73 52 105 166 251 236 301 242 186 227 137
3 Germany 39 73 107 99 86 123 119 151 127 162 208 208 243 206 229 289 354 355 406 325 330 224 280 128
4 Japan 37 41 46 41 46 57 62 57 70 74 97 133 134 141 131 188 265 318 309 279 233 188 210 116
5 China 1 0 2 1 1 2 2 7 1 9 9 15 16 14 28 59 64 90 103 135 141 137 180 108
6 France 40 46 60 55 52 63 56 70 77 87 120 128 145 140 152 208 236 288 284 238 247 174 238 100
7 UK 10 19 18 22 19 22 20 20 22 27 30 45 38 45 45 81 89 114 139 144 113 83 120 67
8 Switzerland 5 9 24 16 23 22 32 36 42 29 33 37 47 63 48 75 95 103 98 94 117 71 109 47
9 Italy 5 6 9 20 12 10 14 23 22 31 22 43 37 29 47 49 61 56 77 78 68 55 74 41
10 Netherlands 9 7 13 15 16 18 23 25 27 37 38 37 45 38 43 71 69 89 100 93 68 47 86 30
11 Belgium 1 6 5 6 14 8 9 12 11 9 30 23 17 23 33 29 36 48 47 47 53 31 51 22
12 Finland 2 0 1 5 4 4 2 5 4 11 5 7 5 9 12 29 27 42 45 61 59 35 46 21
13 Sweden 2 6 3 7 4 10 7 9 10 9 11 10 20 22 16 36 35 34 35 24 35 27 34 20
14 Spain 2 0 2 3 2 6 3 7 8 6 6 11 10 15 15 32 37 42 55 47 36 33 40 18
15 Denmark 1 0 0 2 1 5 1 9 7 6 8 14 15 8 4 14 15 12 13 21 18 10 15 17
16 Canada 7 9 4 7 4 15 5 13 10 9 8 17 21 14 14 22 29 38 54 38 50 26 37 15
17 India 0 0 0 2 1 6 3 2 3 6 3 5 4 14 11 15 19 21 21 20 24 9 18 15
18 Austria 3 5 1 5 6 8 9 3 5 12 7 13 9 14 16 15 16 18 20 29 19 14 18 15
19 Taiwan 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 3 5 3 12 8 6 8 12 19 15 20 30 33 24 21 22 12
20 Norway 0 1 1 0 2 1 6 1 3 5 4 3 2 3 4 8 8 6 10 13 14 16 9 10
21 Ireland 1 2 8 2 8 6 6 10 7 8 4 7 8 5 4 6 3 6 7 15 14 8 12 9
22 Singapore 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 4 5 3 6 12 5 8 2 14 8 14 19 23 13 9 13 8
23 Poland 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 0 3 3 1 8 14 16 13 15 16 12 12 13 7
24 Australia 1 1 2 2 3 6 3 3 2 8 12 5 7 9 14 20 16 20 21 26 18 10 17 7
25 Saudi Arabia 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 11 14 10 12 25 28 19 14 5
26 Luxembourg 1 2 2 1 2 3 1 0 2 1 1 1 4 2 0 5 15 6 19 9 14 14 10 4
27 Czech Republic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 3 3 8 6 6 9 8 12 11 9 5 8 4
28 Slovenia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 5 1 4 8 3 9 3 1 3 3
29 New Zealand 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 1 2 2 2 0 2 3
30 Portugal 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 4 1 4 5 8 6 9 5 6 3
31 Liechtenstein 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 5 3 2 0 2 3 2 5 1 1 4 1 3 2 5 2
32 Malaysia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
33 Turkey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 3 2 6 11 10 5 13 11 9 12 14 2
34 Romania 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 5 3 0 4 1 0 2 1
35 Panama 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
36 Brazil 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 4 3 1 3 6 9 9 6 4 5 5 1
37 South Africa 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 5 2 3 1 6 4 5 4 5 3 2 1 4 1
38 Slovakia 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 1
39 Serbia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
40 Morocco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
41 Estonia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 3 2 0 0 0 3 2 1
42 Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 5 2 3 5 3 2 2 0 2 1
43 Croatia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
44 Uruguay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
45 Vietnam 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
46 Thailand 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
47 Iran 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
48 Belarus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
49 Iceland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0
50 UAE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
51 Bulgaria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
52 Ukraine 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
53 Venezuela 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
54 Costa rica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
55 Algeria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
56 North Korea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
57 Qatar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
58 Kazakhstan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
59 Angola 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
60 Jordan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
61 Egypt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
62 Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0
63 Hungary 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 0
64 Russia 0 0 2 2 0 2 1 1 3 2 0 1 0 4 3 6 4 8 2 6 4 1 4 0
65 Lithuania 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 2 1 3 0 2 2 0
66 Greece 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 2 2 0 0 5 5 2 3 0
67 Latvia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 0
68 Chile 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 0
69 Cyprus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
70 Cuba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
71 Argentina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0

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