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Intellectual Property and Patents

Intellectual Property and Patents is a research topic within Management of Technology and Innovation. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the analysis of intellectual property rights, particularly patents, and their impact on innovation, market value, technology roadmapping, knowledge spillovers, licensing, and R&D incentives. It explores topics such as patent citations, global patent protection, and the relationship between a firm's patent quality and its market value.

  • Patent Analysis
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Innovation
  • Technology Roadmapping
  • Patent Citations
  • Market Value
  • Knowledge Spillovers
  • Licensing
  • R&D Incentives
  • Global Patent Protection
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Intellectual Property and Patents

Which countries lead Intellectual Property and Patents research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (589 and 565 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 589 works
  2. 2 China 565 works
  3. 3 India 317 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 171 works
  5. 5 Germany 133 works
  6. 6 Italy 103 works
  7. 7 Brazil 100 works
  8. 8 France 88 works
  9. 9 South Korea 84 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 81 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 26.4%China: 25.3%India: 14.2%United Kingdom: 7.7%6 others listed: 26.4%26%largest
United States589 · 26.4%China565 · 25.3%India317 · 14.2%United Kingdom171 · 7.7%6 others listed588 · 26.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Intellectual Property and Patents research?

By volume in 2022-now, Georgetown University publishes the most Intellectual Property and Patents research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Victoria University of Wellington.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Georgetown UniversityUnited States 35 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 19 works
  3. 3 Victoria University of WellingtonNew Zealand 16 works
  4. 4 European Patent OrganisationGermany 16 works
  5. 5 Amity UniversityIndia 16 works
  6. 6 O. P. Jindal Global UniversityIndia 14 works
  7. 7 Max Planck SocietyGermany 13 works
  8. 8 University of UtahUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio ExteriorBrazil 12 works
  10. 10 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Intellectual Property and Patents?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Intellectual Property and Patents include Joseph E. Stiglitz.

  1. 1 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Intellectual Property and Patents?

The most cited paper in Intellectual Property and Patents is "Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations" (Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg, Rebecca M. Henderson, 1993), with 7,941 citations. Next come "Market value and patent citations" (3,330) and "Recombinant Uncertainty in Technological Search" (2,901).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg, Rebecca M. Henderson · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access Aug 1993 7,941
2 Market value and patent citations Bronwyn H. Hall, Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg · Research Publications (Maastricht University) Open access 2005 3,330
3 Recombinant Uncertainty in Technological Search Lee Fleming · Management Science 2001 2,901
4 Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research Michael Heller, Rebecca S. Eisenberg · Science May 1998 2,625
5 The Patent Paradox Revisited: An Empirical Study of Patenting in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry, 1979-1995 Bronwyn H. Hall, Rosemarie Ham Ziedonis · The RAND Journal of Economics 2001 2,310
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Where is Intellectual Property and Patents research done?

The largest centres of Intellectual Property and Patents research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), Shanghai (China) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 116 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 75 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 55 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 55 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 50 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 47 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 43 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 43 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 40 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 39 works
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Where is the best place to study Intellectual Property and Patents?

Among universities, judged by research, Georgetown University, Seoul National University and University of Bremen score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Georgetown UniversityUnited States 73.914.5%28.3×35 +680.4%
2Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea 58.511.4%3.0×10 +48.5%
3University of BremenGermany 58.030.1%12.5×9 -12.6%
4University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 57.122.2%3.5×12 -15.5%
5Harvard UniversityUnited States 51.19.2%1.2×11 +22.2%
6Duke UniversityUnited States 49.322.5%3.5×8 -17.0%
7Amity UniversityIndia 49.26.8%13.5×16 +194.4%
8O. P. Jindal Global UniversityIndia 45.45.0%55.2×14 +70.8%
9Victoria University of WellingtonNew Zealand 44.61.8%27.2×16 +251.9%
10Stanford UniversityUnited States 44.513.5%2.7×11 -43.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Intellectual Property and Patents, country by country

Is Intellectual Property and Patents research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2012.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Intellectual Property and Patents as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Intellectual Property and Patents over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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