- International families
- 9,6780.3% of the world
- All families
- 14khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 71%1,762 triadic
- Growth
- 1.1×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Ireland 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 Ireland 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
1,408 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
1,761 international families
National Security
45 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
1,950 international families
Information & Influence
115 international families
Governance & Integrity
103 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
47 international families
Production & Innovation
5,273 international families
Trade & Investment
94 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 Ireland's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Ireland'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 2,037 | 0.8% | 16 of 40 | 3.0× | 1.8× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 1,086 | 0.5% | 22 of 40 | 2.0× | 1.0× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 971 | 0.4% | 19 of 40 | 1.6× | 0.8× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 898 | 0.4% | 17 of 40 | 1.7× | 0.8× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 759 | 0.2% | 29 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.9× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 576 | 0.5% | 17 of 40 | 2.0× | 0.9× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 510 | 0.6% | 18 of 40 | 2.1× | 0.5× | |
| Digital Economy Adoption | Production & Innovation | 478 | 0.6% | 17 of 40 | 2.5× | 0.4× | |
| Transmission & Distribution | Strategic Infrastructure | 432 | 1.4% | 11 of 40 | 5.4× | 1.1× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 397 | 0.1% | 28 of 40 | 0.4× | 0.8× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 395 | 0.5% | 20 of 40 | 1.8× | 1.1× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 376 | 0.3% | 29 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.9× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 369 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 0.4× | 1.2× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 367 | 0.5% | 18 of 40 | 1.8× | 1.6× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 355 | 0.5% | 21 of 40 | 1.8× | 0.8× | |
| Data Centres, Compute & Cloud | Strategic Infrastructure | 324 | 0.5% | 18 of 40 | 1.8× | 0.4× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 286 | 0.3% | 19 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.6× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 262 | 0.3% | 21 of 40 | 1.3× | 0.6× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 239 | 0.3% | 20 of 40 | 1.3× | 0.8× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 232 | 0.1% | 23 of 40 | 0.3× | 0.5× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 226 | 0.3% | 23 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.8× | |
| Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering | Critical Technology | 211 | 0.3% | 21 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.0× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 199 | 0.1% | 25 of 40 | 0.3× | 0.5× | |
| Policing & Law Enforcement | Governance & Integrity | 171 | 0.3% | 22 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.5× | |
| System Control & Dispatch | Strategic Infrastructure | 163 | 0.7% | 18 of 40 | 2.5× | 1.4× |
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
Human Capital
Critical Technology
Governance & Integrity
Information & Influence
Trade & Investment
Financial Strength
National Security
3,643
3,198
2,862
272
250
227
166
139
Largest applicants
EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LTD
ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD
ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLIMITED CO
CONNAUGHT ELECTRONICS LTD
Boston Scientific Medical Device Limited
STRYKER EUROPEAN OPERATIONS LTD
DEPUY IRELAND ULTD CO
EATON CORP
JANSSEN SCIENCES IRELAND UNLIMITED CO
ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES LTD
1,912
919
598
244
204
203
202
177
126
118