- International families
- 52k1.4% of the world
- All families
- 63khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 83%11k triadic
- Growth
- 1.0×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Netherlands 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 Netherlands 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
9,983 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
11k international families
National Security
217 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
6,251 international families
Information & Influence
222 international families
Governance & Integrity
351 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
75 international families
Production & Innovation
27k international families
Trade & Investment
349 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 Netherlands's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Netherlands'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 | 8,626 | 3.3% | 6 of 40 | 2.3× | 0.8× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 5,773 | 1.8% | 7 of 40 | 1.3× | 0.8× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 5,008 | 1.4% | 10 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.0× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 4,985 | 6.3% | 6 of 40 | 4.4× | 0.8× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 4,562 | 3.6% | 7 of 40 | 2.5× | 1.0× | |
| Semiconductor Equipment & Materials | Critical Technology | 4,507 | 4.7% | 6 of 40 | 3.3× | 1.4× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 4,268 | 0.8% | 14 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.9× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 2,800 | 1.4% | 10 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.1× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 2,639 | 1.3% | 14 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.1× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 2,606 | 3.1% | 6 of 40 | 2.2× | 0.9× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 2,342 | 1.0% | 11 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.1× | |
| Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication | Critical Technology | 2,056 | 1.5% | 8 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.4× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 2,036 | 2.7% | 7 of 40 | 1.9× | 0.6× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,543 | 0.6% | 14 of 40 | 0.4× | 1.0× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 1,445 | 0.6% | 14 of 40 | 0.4× | 1.0× | |
| Oil & Gas Extraction | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,243 | 3.3% | 8 of 40 | 2.3× | 0.9× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 1,148 | 1.1% | 12 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.4× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 1,099 | 1.5% | 10 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.1× | |
| Nutrition & Preventive Health | Human Capital | 1,040 | 3.4% | 6 of 40 | 2.4× | 1.1× | |
| Knowledge Production | Human Capital | 1,029 | 3.0% | 7 of 40 | 2.1× | 1.2× | |
| Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering | Critical Technology | 1,018 | 1.4% | 10 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.1× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 962 | 1.3% | 10 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.2× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 938 | 0.9% | 14 of 40 | 0.7× | 0.9× | |
| Advanced Packaging & Heterogeneous Integration | Critical Technology | 899 | 1.0% | 9 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.3× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 809 | 1.0% | 15 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.1× |
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
Governance & Integrity
Trade & Investment
Information & Influence
National Security
Financial Strength
21,625
18,539
12,606
846
724
591
400
180
Largest applicants
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS NV
ASML NETHERLANDS BV
SIGNIFY HOLDING BV
SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES BV
NXP BV
PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING BV
CONOPCO INC DBA UNILEVER
UNILEVER IP HOLDINGS B V
DSM IP ASSETS BV
ASM IP HOLDING BV
9,616
3,277
3,095
2,471
2,377
1,895
1,873
1,686
1,440
1,278