- International families
- 7,9650.2% of the world
- All families
- 10khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 78%1,105 triadic
- Growth
- 1.0×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Norway 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 Norway 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
1,167 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
2,514 international families
National Security
106 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
423 international families
Information & Influence
69 international families
Governance & Integrity
85 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
13 international families
Production & Innovation
4,012 international families
Trade & Investment
586 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 Norway's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Norway'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oil & Gas Extraction | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,707 | 4.5% | 5 of 40 | 21× | 0.7× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 797 | 0.6% | 23 of 40 | 2.9× | 0.9× | |
| Maritime & Logistics Services | Trade & Investment | 784 | 2.2% | 9 of 40 | 10× | 2.0× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 705 | 0.2% | 29 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.1× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 695 | 0.1% | 30 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.8× | |
| Logistics, Multimodal & Border Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 560 | 1.9% | 10 of 40 | 8.6× | 2.5× | |
| Supply Chain & Ecosystem | Strategic Infrastructure | 516 | 2.6% | 6 of 40 | 12× | 2.7× | |
| Fisheries & Aquaculture | Strategic Infrastructure | 475 | 10.5% | 4 of 40 | 49× | 1.0× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 456 | 0.2% | 27 of 40 | 1.0× | 0.8× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 389 | 0.1% | 29 of 40 | 0.7× | 0.9× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 384 | 0.1% | 29 of 40 | 0.5× | 0.9× | |
| Storage & Fuel Supply | Strategic Infrastructure | 331 | 0.7% | 18 of 40 | 3.0× | 1.6× | |
| Acoustic & Undersea Sensing | Critical Technology | 305 | 3.1% | 8 of 40 | 15× | 0.6× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 298 | 0.4% | 24 of 40 | 1.9× | 1.4× | |
| Renewable Generation | Strategic Infrastructure | 293 | 0.6% | 19 of 40 | 3.0× | 2.6× | |
| Storage, Transport & Export | Strategic Infrastructure | 270 | 4.0% | 8 of 40 | 18× | 1.0× | |
| Next-Generation Solar & Renewables | Critical Technology | 237 | 0.8% | 17 of 40 | 3.6× | 2.5× | |
| Seaports & Terminals | Strategic Infrastructure | 225 | 6.2% | 7 of 40 | 28× | 1.0× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 223 | 0.1% | 29 of 40 | 0.5× | 0.9× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 218 | 0.1% | 29 of 40 | 0.4× | 0.9× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 213 | 0.1% | 25 of 40 | 0.4× | 1.0× | |
| Wastewater & Sanitation | Strategic Infrastructure | 207 | 0.7% | 22 of 40 | 3.4× | 0.8× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 201 | 0.1% | 24 of 40 | 0.4× | 1.0× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 174 | 0.2% | 23 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.0× | |
| Uncrewed & Collaborative Systems | Critical Technology | 173 | 1.0% | 12 of 40 | 4.8× | 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
Strategic Infrastructure
Critical Technology
Human Capital
Trade & Investment
Governance & Integrity
National Security
Information & Influence
Financial Strength
4,949
2,274
874
830
272
182
141
54
Largest applicants
AUTOSTORE TECH AS
NORDIC SEMICONDUCTOR ASA
EQUINOR ENERGY AS
YARA INT ASA
PGS GEOPHYSICAL AS
STATOIL PETROLEUM AS
AKER SOLUTIONS AS
SAMUELS ADRIAN JAMES
NORWEGIAN UNIV SCI & TECH NTNU
JOTUN AS
507
298
262
236
119
118
101
96
92
90