The University of Barcelona (UB) is the university of the State also requests academic patents, according to a report by the European Patent Office (EPO). The work reveals that 75 Spanish universities will generate at least one European patent application to the EPO between 2000 and 2020. Three of these have Cataloniaare the UB, which encapsulates the ranking of 330 patents; the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), which occupies room 328, and the Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech (UPC), which occupies room 298.
The report reveals that patent applications originating from European universities they have anat augmentant in the darrers anys. Specifically, these represent 10.2% of all patent applications submitted to the EPO by European sol·licitants. In Spain, academic patents will represent 14.6% of all European patent applications submitted by Spaniards to the EPO in the period 2000-2020.
1,200 universities: Spain occupies the lowest development
At European level, 5% of them 1,200 universities incloses in l’estudi represent the meitat of all the applications for academic patents. Among these are the University of Grenoble Alpes, the Munich Technique, the Oxford University or the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. These are more focused on scientifically based technological fields They also provide support for specialized connection transfer offices.
Specifically, 62% of universities provide 8% of patents. Tot i això, the study points out that the small universities with their patent applications in volume have a prominent role in their national innovation ecosystems.
According to my studies, Germany, France, Regne Unit and Italy lead academic patent applications. Spain is second only to Europe, since Spanish universities are responsible for 3.23% of all academic patent applications submitted to Europe. There are 3,460 in total.
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