High income OECD countries Compared by Economy > Innovation > Patent applications, residents per million
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DEFINITION:
Patent applications, residents. Patent applications are worldwide patent applications filed through the Patent Cooperation Treaty procedure or with a national patent office for exclusive rights for an invention--a product or process that provides a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem. A patent provides protection for the invention to the owner of the patent for a limited period, generally 20 years. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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1 | South Korea | 2,772.94 | 2011 | ||
2 | Japan | 2,249.93 | 2011 | ||
3 | United States | 795.12 | 2011 | ||
4 | Germany | 574.42 | 2011 | ||
5 | New Zealand | 340.73 | 2011 | ||
6 | Finland | 306.22 | 2011 | ||
7 | Denmark | 282.56 | 2011 | ||
8 | Austria | 255.71 | 2011 | ||
9 | United Kingdom | 244.5 | 2011 | ||
10 | Norway | 226.53 | 2011 | ||
11 | France | 224.18 | 2011 | ||
12 | Slovenia | 215.76 | 2010 | ||
13 | Sweden | 212.08 | 2011 | ||
14 | Switzerland | 201.84 | 2011 | ||
15 | Israel | 175.12 | 2011 | ||
16 | Luxembourg | 163.98 | 2011 | ||
17 | Iceland | 156.73 | 2011 | ||
18 | Netherlands | 154.85 | 2011 | ||
19 | Italy | 144.82 | 2011 | ||
20 | Canada | 137.86 | 2011 | ||
21 | Ireland | 107.94 | 2011 | ||
22 | Australia | 106.75 | 2011 | ||
23 | Poland | 100.66 | 2011 | ||
24 | Czech Republic | 74.6 | 2011 | ||
25 | Spain | 74.28 | 2011 | ||
26 | Greece | 64.38 | 2010 | ||
27 | Belgium | 57.57 | 2011 | ||
28 | Portugal | 54.09 | 2011 | ||
29 | Estonia | 46.27 | 2011 | ||
30 | Slovakia | 41.49 | 2011 | ||
31 | Chile | 19.59 | 2011 |