- International families
- 27k0.7% of the world
- All families
- 31khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 88%3,025 triadic
- Growth
- 1.4×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Finland 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 Finland 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
11k international families
Strategic Infrastructure
11k international families
National Security
499 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
828 international families
Information & Influence
347 international families
Governance & Integrity
274 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
54 international families
Production & Innovation
17k international families
Trade & Investment
220 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 Finland's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Finland'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 10,309 | 3.9% | 6 of 40 | 5.4× | 2.4× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 10,159 | 4.0% | 6 of 40 | 5.4× | 2.4× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 2,737 | 0.9% | 14 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.2× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 2,279 | 2.2% | 9 of 40 | 3.1× | 1.5× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 1,632 | 0.3% | 21 of 40 | 0.4× | 1.0× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,501 | 0.7% | 16 of 40 | 0.9× | 2.1× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 1,314 | 1.7% | 10 of 40 | 2.3× | 1.4× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,131 | 0.3% | 20 of 40 | 0.4× | 0.9× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 1,088 | 0.4% | 24 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.8× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 1,027 | 1.0% | 15 of 40 | 1.3× | 3.0× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 957 | 1.3% | 13 of 40 | 1.8× | 1.3× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 890 | 0.4% | 18 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.2× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 677 | 0.5% | 24 of 40 | 0.7× | 0.9× | |
| Human-Machine Interfaces | Critical Technology | 637 | 1.3% | 9 of 40 | 1.7× | 0.8× | |
| Processing & Refining | Strategic Infrastructure | 608 | 2.4% | 11 of 40 | 3.3× | 1.0× | |
| Data Centres, Compute & Cloud | Strategic Infrastructure | 603 | 0.9% | 16 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.8× | |
| Advanced Optical Communication & Photonics | Critical Technology | 512 | 1.0% | 11 of 40 | 1.4× | 1.5× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 508 | 0.7% | 19 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.1× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 497 | 0.5% | 19 of 40 | 0.7× | 0.7× | |
| International Media & Broadcasting | Information & Influence | 451 | 1.0% | 11 of 40 | 1.4× | 0.6× | |
| Solid Waste & Recycling | Strategic Infrastructure | 400 | 1.7% | 13 of 40 | 2.3× | 1.2× | |
| Wastewater & Sanitation | Strategic Infrastructure | 381 | 1.3% | 13 of 40 | 1.8× | 0.7× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 355 | 0.2% | 30 of 40 | 0.2× | 1.0× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 346 | 0.4% | 20 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.6× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 343 | 0.4% | 21 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.7× |
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
Information & Influence
National Security
Governance & Integrity
Trade & Investment
Financial Strength
17,081
15,457
1,670
798
761
557
489
137
Largest applicants
NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
NOKIA SOLUTIONS & NETWORKS OY
NOKIA SHANGHAI BELL CO LTD
SHANGHAI NOKIA BELL CO LTD
KONE CORP
STORA ENSO OYJ
TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT OY
KEMIRA OYJ
NOKIA USA INC
VALMET TECHNOLOGIES OY
11,102
4,298
1,831
1,172
1,006
571
464
393
354
330