- International families
- 4,9090.1% of the world
- All families
- 11khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 44%330 triadic
- Growth
- 0.8×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong 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
1,085 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
836 international families
National Security
30 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
328 international families
Information & Influence
75 international families
Governance & Integrity
74 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
33 international families
Production & Innovation
2,246 international families
Trade & Investment
48 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 Hong Kong's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Hong Kong'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 | 513 | 0.1% | 32 of 40 | 0.8× | 0.6× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 453 | 0.2% | 23 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.0× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 436 | 0.2% | 20 of 40 | 1.3× | 0.6× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 422 | 0.2% | 19 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.6× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 410 | 0.2% | 26 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.8× | |
| Batteries & Energy Storage | Critical Technology | 374 | 0.3% | 15 of 40 | 2.4× | 3.6× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 311 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.1× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 308 | 0.1% | 32 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.8× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 294 | 0.1% | 35 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.4× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 247 | 0.3% | 21 of 40 | 2.0× | 0.3× | |
| Digital Economy Adoption | Production & Innovation | 236 | 0.3% | 22 of 40 | 2.4× | 0.3× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 216 | 0.2% | 23 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.9× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 200 | 0.2% | 26 of 40 | 1.8× | 0.6× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 199 | 0.1% | 35 of 40 | 0.7× | 2.0× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 188 | 0.3% | 24 of 40 | 2.0× | 0.4× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 186 | 0.1% | 34 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.5× | |
| Data Centres, Compute & Cloud | Strategic Infrastructure | 166 | 0.2% | 22 of 40 | 1.8× | 0.3× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 159 | 0.2% | 24 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.4× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 158 | 0.2% | 25 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.5× | |
| Payments & Settlement Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 112 | 0.4% | 21 of 40 | 3.3× | 0.1× | |
| Policing & Law Enforcement | Governance & Integrity | 107 | 0.2% | 26 of 40 | 1.4× | 0.6× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 90 | 0.1% | 30 of 40 | 0.8× | 2.1× | |
| International Media & Broadcasting | Information & Influence | 84 | 0.2% | 23 of 40 | 1.4× | 0.6× | |
| Payment & Market Infrastructure Oversight | Financial Strength | 83 | 0.5% | 18 of 40 | 3.7× | 0.1× | |
| Industrial Technology Diffusion | Production & Innovation | 81 | 0.1% | 30 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.8× |
By domain and applicant
International patent families, 2015 to 2024. A family counts once in each domain it reaches.
Domains of the framework
Critical Technology
Strategic Infrastructure
Human Capital
Information & Influence
Financial Strength
Trade & Investment
Governance & Integrity
National Security
2,038
2,002
566
194
182
180
171
68
Largest applicants
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
ALIBABA GROUP SERVICES LTD
UNIV CITY HONG KONG
CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY HONG KONG LTD
CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
NINGDE CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECH CO LTD
HONG KONG APPLIED SCIENCE & TECH RESEARCH INST CO LTD
Fg innovation co ltd
NANO & ADVANCED MATERIALS INST LTD
ASTEC INT LTD
487
482
260
239
231
229
194
162
117
78