- International families
- 3,0150.1% of the world
- All families
- 4,272home filings included
- Taken abroad
- 71%479 triadic
- Growth
- 1.1×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of New Zealand 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 New Zealand 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
393 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
608 international families
National Security
19 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
535 international families
Information & Influence
112 international families
Governance & Integrity
64 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
35 international families
Production & Innovation
1,568 international families
Trade & Investment
46 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 New Zealand's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of New Zealand'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 650 | 0.2% | 26 of 40 | 3.0× | 1.0× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 502 | 0.4% | 25 of 40 | 4.8× | 1.1× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 306 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 0.7× | 0.8× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 298 | 0.1% | 32 of 40 | 1.8× | 1.2× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 190 | 0.1% | 36 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.7× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 182 | 0.1% | 38 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.0× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 176 | 0.1% | 30 of 40 | 1.0× | 3.0× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 175 | 0.1% | 30 of 40 | 0.9× | 3.1× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 138 | 0.2% | 27 of 40 | 2.0× | 2.0× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 124 | 0.2% | 26 of 40 | 1.9× | 1.7× | |
| Livestock & Veterinary | Strategic Infrastructure | 100 | 1.3% | 19 of 40 | 16× | 1.1× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 97 | 0.1% | 29 of 40 | 1.1× | 4.7× | |
| Nutrition & Preventive Health | Human Capital | 92 | 0.3% | 29 of 40 | 3.6× | 1.5× | |
| Creative Industries & Cultural Export Reach | Information & Influence | 92 | 0.3% | 24 of 40 | 3.4× | 3.6× | |
| Digital Economy Adoption | Production & Innovation | 81 | 0.1% | 32 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.3× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 80 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 1.4× | 1.0× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 80 | 0.1% | 29 of 40 | 1.1× | 3.7× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 77 | 0.1% | 34 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.1× | |
| Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering | Critical Technology | 72 | 0.1% | 29 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.1× | |
| Sports & Major Events | Information & Influence | 59 | 0.3% | 28 of 40 | 3.8× | 1.5× | |
| Wastewater & Sanitation | Strategic Infrastructure | 54 | 0.2% | 31 of 40 | 2.3× | 1.1× | |
| Industrial Technology Diffusion | Production & Innovation | 53 | 0.1% | 32 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.8× | |
| Storage & Fuel Supply | Strategic Infrastructure | 52 | 0.1% | 32 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.2× | |
| Roads & Bridges | Strategic Infrastructure | 52 | 0.2% | 28 of 40 | 2.9× | 0.9× | |
| Civil Protection & Emergency Management | Governance & Integrity | 52 | 0.4% | 28 of 40 | 4.3× | 0.7× |
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
Human Capital
Critical Technology
Information & Influence
Governance & Integrity
Trade & Investment
Financial Strength
National Security
1,115
1,003
684
160
130
100
53
42
Largest applicants
FISHER & PAYKEL HEALTHCARE LTD
AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LTD
WETA DIGITAL LTD
VICTORIA LINK LTD
XERO LTD
UNITY TECH SF
FISHER & PAYKEL APPLIANCES LTD
FONTERRA COOPERATIVE GROUP LTD
SOUL MACHINES LTD
OTAGO INNOVATION LTD
340
128
78
69
63
42
39
30
24
23