Outsourcing Innovation in Product Cycles

Table 1

World Share of patents granted by USPTO and EPO, by inventors from selected regions/countries.

Agency/region/country	1985	1990	1996	2001	2004	2005	2006	1985	1990	1996	2001	2004	2005	2006
				(1)							(2)
USPTO
United States	55.20	52.44	55.73	52.76	51.29	51.90	NA	51.89	47.30	50.00	51.54	50.48	50.55	50.37
EU	21.56	19.72	15.33	16.38	15.16	14.69	NA	17.23	14.92	10.80	10.88	10.99	11.09	10.79
Asia	18.16	22.83	24.38	25.97	28.83	28.76	NA	27.27	34.52	36.18	34.14	34.73	34.50	34.61
China	0.04	0.11	0.12	0.26	0.44	0.48	NA	0.03	0.10	0.10	0.13	0.28	0.39	0.48
India	0.01	0.03	0.03	0.11	0.22	0.27	NA	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.06	0.16	0.26	0.28
Japan	17.79	21.61	21.03	20.01	21.52	21.10	NA	27.09	33.57	31.97	26.08	26.33	25.49	25.09
Malaysia	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.02	0.05	0.06	NA	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.05	0.09	0.09
Singapore	0.01	0.01	0.08	0.18	0.27	0.24	NA	0.01	0.02	0.11	0.36	0.47	0.38	0.34
South Korea	0.06	0.25	1.36	2.13	2.70	3.03	NA	0.03	0.42	2.57	3.84	3.93	4.35	4.77
Taiwan	0.24	0.81	1.73	3.23	3.61	3.56	NA	0.10	0.38	1.39	3.62	3.47	3.52	3.52
Thailand	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	NA	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.01
All others	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	NA	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
EPO
United States	21.90	22.59	24.53	23.68	23.17	23.41	22.63	25.64	27.22	27.25	28.62	26.58	25.45	25.48
EU	57.70	53.66	45.51	50.70	51.40	50.83	49.93	50.60	43.45	30.84	37.13	41.32	43.05	40.12
Asia	13.29	17.38	24.46	19.79	19.18	19.45	21.09	18.54	25.41	38.56	30.29	27.18	26.70	29.17
China	0.00	0.05	0.08	0.07	0.15	0.19	0.23	0.00	0.02	0.04	0.03	0.11	0.17	0.25
India	0.06	0.02	0.03	0.05	0.16	0.18	0.21	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.06	0.07	0.09
Japan	13.15	17.20	24.01	19.00	17.79	17.82	19.02	18.48	25.32	38.09	29.31	25.16	24.44	26.16
Malaysia	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02
Singapore	0.01	0.02	0.05	0.09	0.09	0.09	0.10	0.00	0.05	0.08	0.17	0.20	0.16	0.19
South Korea	0.01	0.02	0.18	0.48	0.77	0.90	1.23	0.00	0.00	0.28	0.71	1.40	1.64	2.20
Taiwan	0.06	0.07	0.10	0.08	0.20	0.23	0.26	0.07	0.02	0.05	0.06	0.22	0.20	0.23
Thailand	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.01
All others	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00

(1) are patents granted, (2) are ICT patents granted.
Source: Science and Engineering Indicators 2008 [18], Tables 39-46.