- International families
- 20k0.5% of the world
- All families
- 26khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 75%1,791 triadic
- Growth
- 1.5×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Singapore 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 Singapore 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
7,190 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
6,618 international families
National Security
205 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
1,910 international families
Information & Influence
438 international families
Governance & Integrity
374 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
248 international families
Production & Innovation
12k international families
Trade & Investment
359 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 Singapore's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Singapore'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 2,829 | 1.1% | 10 of 40 | 2.0× | 2.3× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 2,738 | 1.1% | 10 of 40 | 2.0× | 2.4× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,847 | 0.8% | 15 of 40 | 1.5× | 2.7× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 1,615 | 0.8% | 15 of 40 | 1.5× | 2.4× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,555 | 0.4% | 18 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.5× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 1,252 | 0.5% | 21 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.4× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 1,185 | 0.6% | 21 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.5× | |
| Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication | Critical Technology | 1,109 | 0.8% | 9 of 40 | 1.5× | 2.2× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 1,094 | 0.3% | 24 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.2× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 1,034 | 0.2% | 24 of 40 | 0.4× | 1.4× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 1,029 | 1.0% | 14 of 40 | 1.8× | 4.4× | |
| Advanced Packaging & Heterogeneous Integration | Critical Technology | 993 | 1.2% | 8 of 40 | 2.2× | 2.2× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 978 | 1.0% | 13 of 40 | 1.8× | 2.5× | |
| Data Centres, Compute & Cloud | Strategic Infrastructure | 852 | 1.2% | 10 of 40 | 2.3× | 3.2× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 841 | 0.9% | 13 of 40 | 1.7× | 2.4× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 815 | 1.0% | 14 of 40 | 2.0× | 1.8× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 754 | 1.1% | 15 of 40 | 2.0× | 1.5× | |
| Knowledge Production | Human Capital | 703 | 2.1% | 10 of 40 | 3.9× | 1.6× | |
| Digital Economy Adoption | Production & Innovation | 663 | 0.9% | 13 of 40 | 1.7× | 1.2× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 588 | 0.7% | 15 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.5× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 570 | 0.8% | 19 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.3× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 534 | 0.7% | 19 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.7× | |
| Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering | Critical Technology | 516 | 0.7% | 16 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.6× | |
| Advanced Imaging & Photonic Sensing | Critical Technology | 502 | 0.9% | 13 of 40 | 1.7× | 1.4× | |
| Semiconductor Equipment & Materials | Critical Technology | 495 | 0.5% | 11 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.5× |
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
Trade & Investment
Governance & Integrity
Financial Strength
National Security
10,405
9,640
3,125
663
603
571
513
309
Largest applicants
LENOVO SINGAPORE PTE LTD
AGENCY SCIENCE TECH & RES
NAT UNIV SINGAPORE
MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE LTD
AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE LTD
UNIV NANYANG TECH
CLOUD INTELLIGENCE ASSETS HOLDING SINGAPORE PRIVATE LTD
AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID
AAC TECHNOLOGIES SINGAPORE CO LTD
AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES GENERAL IP
2,308
1,374
1,152
984
916
883
708
635
557
491