- International families
- 18k0.5% of the world
- All families
- 22khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 81%3,345 triadic
- Growth
- 1.0×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Belgium 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 Belgium 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
2,816 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
2,633 international families
National Security
75 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
1,857 international families
Information & Influence
93 international families
Governance & Integrity
118 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
21 international families
Production & Innovation
9,241 international families
Trade & Investment
196 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 Belgium's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Belgium'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 | 2,447 | 0.5% | 16 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.0× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 2,399 | 0.8% | 16 of 40 | 1.6× | 1.1× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 2,149 | 1.0% | 15 of 40 | 2.2× | 1.1× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,571 | 0.4% | 17 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.8× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 1,519 | 1.2% | 18 of 40 | 2.4× | 1.0× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 1,089 | 0.4% | 23 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.9× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 945 | 1.2% | 11 of 40 | 2.6× | 1.1× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 707 | 1.0% | 14 of 40 | 2.1× | 1.1× | |
| Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering | Critical Technology | 668 | 0.9% | 13 of 40 | 1.9× | 1.2× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 612 | 0.8% | 17 of 40 | 1.7× | 1.0× | |
| Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication | Critical Technology | 602 | 0.4% | 13 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.9× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 446 | 0.2% | 23 of 40 | 0.4× | 1.0× | |
| Batteries & Energy Storage | Critical Technology | 424 | 0.4% | 14 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.2× | |
| Materials & Inputs | Strategic Infrastructure | 417 | 1.1% | 11 of 40 | 2.2× | 1.1× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 417 | 0.2% | 25 of 40 | 0.4× | 0.9× | |
| Nutrition & Preventive Health | Human Capital | 380 | 1.2% | 15 of 40 | 2.5× | 0.8× | |
| Advanced Imaging & Photonic Sensing | Critical Technology | 336 | 0.6% | 16 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.1× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 334 | 0.4% | 22 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.8× | |
| Genomics & Biological Data | Critical Technology | 308 | 0.8% | 16 of 40 | 1.6× | 1.0× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 280 | 0.3% | 20 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.4× | |
| Semiconductor Equipment & Materials | Critical Technology | 279 | 0.3% | 14 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.8× | |
| Advanced Optical Communication & Photonics | Critical Technology | 279 | 0.6% | 17 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.5× | |
| Knowledge Production | Human Capital | 268 | 0.8% | 15 of 40 | 1.6× | 1.0× | |
| Solid Waste & Recycling | Strategic Infrastructure | 261 | 1.1% | 17 of 40 | 2.3× | 1.7× | |
| Processing & Refining | Strategic Infrastructure | 250 | 1.0% | 18 of 40 | 2.1× | 1.2× |
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
5,515
5,503
3,530
334
233
187
160
74
Largest applicants
IMEC VZW
UNIV LEUVEN KATH
UNIV GENT
JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA NV
ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV
AGC GLASS EUROPE
CNH IND BELGIUM NV
ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NV
VIB VZW
SOLVAY
1,350
731
498
485
403
402
398
296
275
271