- International families
- 23k0.6% of the world
- All families
- 28khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 84%2,868 triadic
- Growth
- 1.0×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Austria origin by the year of the earliest filing, 2000 to 2025; 2025 is a part year, still filling in.
Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google
Innovation and National Capability
The nine domains of the National Capability Framework, each with the capabilities in which Austria has the most international patent families, in the period chosen. 2025 is a part year and 2026 has barely begun. Select a capability for its page.
Hard Power
Critical Technology
2,928 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
4,530 international families
National Security
124 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
1,001 international families
Information & Influence
196 international families
Governance & Integrity
200 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
60 international families
Production & Innovation
12k international families
Trade & Investment
254 international families
Where its patents run deepest
International patent families, 2015 to 2024, in each capability of the National Capability Framework. Share of world is Austria's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Austria's families against its share of the world's: 2.0× means twice the world's weight. Growth compares the latest five full years with the five before.
| 2000 to 2025 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 4,753 | 0.9% | 13 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.9× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 3,355 | 0.9% | 12 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.9× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 2,683 | 0.9% | 15 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.1× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 1,123 | 0.4% | 22 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.0× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 931 | 0.7% | 22 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.9× | |
| Rail Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 918 | 5.3% | 6 of 40 | 8.3× | 0.9× | |
| Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication | Critical Technology | 787 | 0.6% | 10 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.0× | |
| Materials & Inputs | Strategic Infrastructure | 677 | 1.8% | 8 of 40 | 2.8× | 1.0× | |
| Advanced Packaging & Heterogeneous Integration | Critical Technology | 674 | 0.8% | 10 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.1× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 523 | 0.3% | 26 of 40 | 0.4× | 1.1× | |
| Industrial Technology Diffusion | Production & Innovation | 485 | 0.7% | 14 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.8× | |
| Hydrogen, Ammonia & Sustainable Fuels | Critical Technology | 447 | 1.2% | 12 of 40 | 1.9× | 2.5× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 414 | 0.2% | 25 of 40 | 0.3× | 1.5× | |
| Storage & Fuel Supply | Strategic Infrastructure | 408 | 0.8% | 15 of 40 | 1.3× | 2.0× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 406 | 0.2% | 26 of 40 | 0.3× | 1.8× | |
| Compound & Power Semiconductors | Critical Technology | 393 | 2.0% | 7 of 40 | 3.1× | 1.0× | |
| Semiconductor Equipment & Materials | Critical Technology | 392 | 0.4% | 13 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.1× | |
| Additive & Precision Manufacturing | Critical Technology | 387 | 0.9% | 15 of 40 | 1.4× | 1.0× | |
| Maritime & Logistics Services | Trade & Investment | 379 | 1.1% | 16 of 40 | 1.7× | 0.9× | |
| Solid Waste & Recycling | Strategic Infrastructure | 357 | 1.5% | 15 of 40 | 2.4× | 1.9× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 356 | 0.5% | 22 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.0× | |
| Advanced Imaging & Photonic Sensing | Critical Technology | 355 | 0.6% | 15 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.2× | |
| Renewable Generation | Strategic Infrastructure | 350 | 0.8% | 16 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.2× | |
| Logistics, Multimodal & Border Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 320 | 1.1% | 15 of 40 | 1.7× | 1.0× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 313 | 0.4% | 21 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.3× |
By domain and applicant
International patent families, 2015 to 2024. A family counts once in each domain it reaches.
Domains of the framework
Strategic Infrastructure
Critical Technology
Human Capital
Trade & Investment
Governance & Integrity
Information & Influence
National Security
Financial Strength
8,748
5,280
1,927
495
405
374
258
117
Largest applicants
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG
AVL LIST GMBH
BOREALIS AG
TRIDONIC GMBH & CO KG
ZKW GROUP GMBH
ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING GMBH
BLUM GMBH JULIUS
BOREALIS GMBH
Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH
AUSTRIA TECH & SYSTEM TECH
1,214
965
954
660
450
387
379
334
307
292