- International families
- 18k0.5% of the world
- All families
- 20khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 90%2,692 triadic
- Growth
- 1.1×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Denmark 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 Denmark 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
3,936 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
4,137 international families
National Security
54 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
2,071 international families
Information & Influence
122 international families
Governance & Integrity
141 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
27 international families
Production & Innovation
9,541 international families
Trade & Investment
224 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 Denmark's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Denmark'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renewable Generation | Strategic Infrastructure | 3,176 | 7.0% | 6 of 40 | 14× | 1.0× | |
| Next-Generation Solar & Renewables | Critical Technology | 2,913 | 9.6% | 5 of 40 | 20× | 1.0× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 1,905 | 0.7% | 18 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.0× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 1,830 | 0.9% | 18 of 40 | 1.8× | 1.0× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 1,686 | 1.3% | 13 of 40 | 2.7× | 0.9× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 1,587 | 0.3% | 22 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.2× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 1,421 | 0.5% | 21 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.4× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,285 | 0.4% | 19 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.2× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 834 | 1.2% | 12 of 40 | 2.4× | 1.0× | |
| Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering | Critical Technology | 790 | 1.1% | 11 of 40 | 2.2× | 0.9× | |
| Hydrogen, Ammonia & Sustainable Fuels | Critical Technology | 722 | 1.9% | 8 of 40 | 3.9× | 1.9× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 624 | 0.8% | 15 of 40 | 1.7× | 1.1× | |
| Storage & Fuel Supply | Strategic Infrastructure | 589 | 1.2% | 14 of 40 | 2.4× | 2.0× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 575 | 0.8% | 16 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.3× | |
| Nutrition & Preventive Health | Human Capital | 451 | 1.5% | 13 of 40 | 3.0× | 1.0× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 410 | 0.2% | 26 of 40 | 0.4× | 1.8× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 385 | 0.5% | 17 of 40 | 1.0× | 0.9× | |
| System Control & Dispatch | Strategic Infrastructure | 380 | 1.5% | 10 of 40 | 3.1× | 1.1× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 372 | 0.2% | 27 of 40 | 0.3× | 2.1× | |
| Oil & Gas Extraction | Strategic Infrastructure | 353 | 0.9% | 13 of 40 | 1.9× | 0.9× | |
| Structural & Composite Materials | Critical Technology | 333 | 1.4% | 10 of 40 | 2.8× | 1.9× | |
| Industrial Technology Diffusion | Production & Innovation | 329 | 0.5% | 17 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.3× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 299 | 0.4% | 22 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.2× | |
| Processing & Refining | Strategic Infrastructure | 294 | 1.2% | 15 of 40 | 2.4× | 1.6× | |
| Maritime & Logistics Services | Trade & Investment | 292 | 0.8% | 19 of 40 | 1.7× | 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
Information & Influence
Governance & Integrity
National Security
Financial Strength
7,632
7,150
3,994
382
260
242
82
48
Largest applicants
VESTAS WIND SYS AS
SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY AS
NOVOZYMES AS
DANFOSS AS
HALDOR TOPSOE AS
UNIV DANMARKS TEKNISKE
NOVO NORDISK AS
VKR HOLDING AS
GN HEARING AS
TOPSOE AS
1,388
1,286
666
538
471
455
446
402
376
341