Portugal occupies position 17 in the table of countries with the most academic patent applications filed between 2000 and 2020. The areas of pharmacy and biotechnology dominate.
Portugal filed 818 academic patent applications between 2000 and 2020, occupying the middle of the table, 17th position, among 34 European countries, according to a study published this Tuesday by the European Patent Organization (EPO).
According to the study, the University of Porto (207), the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (155), the University of Lisbon (148), the University of Minho (131) and the Instituto Superior Técnico (115) were the five Portuguese academic institutions with more patent applications registered with the EPO.
In total, 39 Portuguese academic institutions submitted at least one patent application between 2000 and 2020.
In Portugal, university invention patents represented 34.2% of all patent applications submitted by Portuguese applicants to the EPO in the period 2000-2020.
The study released this Tuesday is based on data from more than 1,200 European universities that submitted patent applications to the EPO in that period, with Germany (24.09%), France (17.97%), the United Kingdom (12.26 %) and Italy (6.61%), in the first places, concentrating more than half of the academic patent applications.
Portugal accounted for 0.76% of academic patent applications between 2000 and 2020.
In 2019, more than 10% of European patent applications came from universities.
The areas of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology lead the academic patent applications filed.
According to the same study, 16 Portuguese startups (companies in the development phase) registered 43 European patent applications on academic inventions between 2015 and 2019.
Source: Observadora
