Patents - technology diffusion

Patent statistics and indicators are suitable for tracking innovation in environment-related technologies. They allow the assessment of countries' innovation performance as well as the design of governments' environmental and innovation policies.

This dataset presents data on patent applications by patent office.

For more information on the methodology, click the link below on "Database documentation"

Data source(s): OECD, STI Micro-data Lab: Intellectual Property Database, http://oe.cd/ipstats

Contact: [email protected]

Dataset release date: April 16, 2026

Database documentation