- International families
- 48k1.3% of the world
- All families
- 53khome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 90%6,631 triadic
- Growth
- 1.1×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Sweden 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 Sweden 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
13k international families
Strategic Infrastructure
13k international families
National Security
623 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
2,120 international families
Information & Influence
338 international families
Governance & Integrity
711 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
113 international families
Production & Innovation
26k international families
Trade & Investment
329 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 Sweden's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Sweden'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 | 14,008 | 5.4% | 5 of 40 | 4.2× | 1.0× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 13,628 | 5.3% | 5 of 40 | 4.1× | 1.0× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 8,886 | 1.8% | 8 of 40 | 1.4× | 1.2× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 3,689 | 3.6% | 6 of 40 | 2.8× | 1.0× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 2,769 | 1.2% | 10 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.9× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 2,543 | 0.7% | 14 of 40 | 0.5× | 0.9× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 2,058 | 1.0% | 12 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.4× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 2,048 | 0.8% | 15 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.0× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 1,996 | 0.6% | 17 of 40 | 0.5× | 1.2× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 1,985 | 2.5% | 7 of 40 | 2.0× | 1.2× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 1,692 | 0.8% | 19 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.2× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 1,636 | 1.3% | 14 of 40 | 1.0× | 1.1× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 1,527 | 2.2% | 8 of 40 | 1.7× | 1.0× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 1,430 | 1.3% | 10 of 40 | 1.0× | 3.7× | |
| Autonomous Systems & Trusted Autonomy | Critical Technology | 1,246 | 2.2% | 7 of 40 | 1.7× | 1.4× | |
| Data Centres, Compute & Cloud | Strategic Infrastructure | 1,199 | 1.7% | 9 of 40 | 1.3× | 0.8× | |
| Policing & Law Enforcement | Governance & Integrity | 1,071 | 1.9% | 8 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.9× | |
| Batteries & Energy Storage | Critical Technology | 888 | 0.7% | 9 of 40 | 0.6× | 4.5× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 759 | 0.8% | 15 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.9× | |
| Radar & Radiofrequency Sensing | Critical Technology | 726 | 3.0% | 7 of 40 | 2.3× | 1.4× | |
| Storage & Fuel Supply | Strategic Infrastructure | 669 | 1.3% | 13 of 40 | 1.0× | 2.2× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 610 | 0.9% | 15 of 40 | 0.7× | 0.9× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 580 | 0.8% | 15 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.5× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 578 | 0.7% | 16 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.0× | |
| Spectrum & Broadcasting | Strategic Infrastructure | 572 | 4.9% | 5 of 40 | 3.8× | 0.5× |
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
National Security
Information & Influence
Trade & Investment
Financial Strength
25,669
23,112
3,947
1,448
1,021
791
695
271
Largest applicants
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M
ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M (publ)
VOLVO TRUCK CORP
SKF AB
SCANIA CV AB
VOLVO CAR CORP
AUTOLIV DEV
HUSQVARNA AB
Electrolux Appliances AB
AXIS AB
17,213
2,439
2,373
1,534
1,332
1,110
1,000
891
876
538