- International families
- 53k1.4% of the world
- All families
- 88khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 60%6,123 triadic
- Growth
- 1.0×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Italy 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 Italy 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
4,741 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
9,031 international families
National Security
226 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
3,562 international families
Information & Influence
379 international families
Governance & Integrity
472 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
141 international families
Production & Innovation
28k international families
Trade & Investment
628 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 Italy's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Italy'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 | 10,693 | 2.1% | 7 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.1× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 6,963 | 1.9% | 8 of 40 | 1.4× | 1.1× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 3,798 | 1.2% | 11 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.1× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 3,432 | 2.7% | 9 of 40 | 1.9× | 0.9× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 3,334 | 1.3% | 13 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.0× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 3,081 | 1.5% | 11 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.1× | |
| Industrial Technology Diffusion | Production & Innovation | 1,036 | 1.5% | 9 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.3× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 886 | 1.2% | 13 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.1× | |
| Maritime & Logistics Services | Trade & Investment | 795 | 2.2% | 8 of 40 | 1.6× | 1.4× | |
| Storage & Fuel Supply | Strategic Infrastructure | 775 | 1.5% | 9 of 40 | 1.1× | 2.0× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 742 | 0.4% | 20 of 40 | 0.3× | 1.6× | |
| Batteries & Energy Storage | Critical Technology | 741 | 0.6% | 10 of 40 | 0.4× | 3.3× | |
| Materials & Inputs | Strategic Infrastructure | 738 | 1.9% | 7 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.2× | |
| Solid Waste & Recycling | Strategic Infrastructure | 735 | 3.1% | 7 of 40 | 2.2× | 1.5× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 719 | 0.3% | 20 of 40 | 0.2× | 1.8× | |
| Additive & Precision Manufacturing | Critical Technology | 670 | 1.5% | 11 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.3× | |
| Advanced Robotics | Critical Technology | 662 | 1.5% | 10 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.6× | |
| Logistics, Multimodal & Border Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 662 | 2.2% | 8 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.5× | |
| Thermal Generation | Strategic Infrastructure | 638 | 2.6% | 9 of 40 | 1.8× | 1.2× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 604 | 0.9% | 16 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.9× | |
| Renewable Generation | Strategic Infrastructure | 592 | 1.3% | 13 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.1× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 588 | 0.7% | 15 of 40 | 0.5× | 1.1× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 555 | 0.7% | 18 of 40 | 0.5× | 1.3× | |
| Nutrition & Preventive Health | Human Capital | 539 | 1.7% | 12 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.1× | |
| Transmission & Distribution | Strategic Infrastructure | 503 | 1.7% | 10 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.9× |
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
16,899
8,217
6,778
1,086
917
767
418
255
Largest applicants
ST MICROELECTRONICS SRL
GD SPA
FERRARI SPA
MILANO POLITECNICO
NUOVO PIGNONE TECNOLOGIE SRL
PIRELLI
CNH IND ITALIA SPA
BASELL POLIOLEFINE ITALIA SRL
SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS IT
FONDAZIONE ST ITALIANO TECNOLOGIA
1,389
871
550
542
473
440
385
319
307
291