- International families
- 3,1230.1% of the world
- All families
- 4,714home filings included
- Taken abroad
- 66%214 triadic
- Growth
- 1.3×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Portugal 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 Portugal 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
585 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
621 international families
National Security
31 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
417 international families
Information & Influence
32 international families
Governance & Integrity
59 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
33 international families
Production & Innovation
1,778 international families
Trade & Investment
33 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 Portugal's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Portugal'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 374 | 0.2% | 28 of 40 | 2.2× | 1.4× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 347 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.6× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 277 | 0.1% | 34 of 40 | 0.7× | 1.3× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 272 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.2× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 257 | 0.2% | 31 of 40 | 2.4× | 0.9× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 183 | 0.1% | 37 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.1× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 170 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 1.0× | 2.3× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 169 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 0.9× | 2.8× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 143 | 0.2% | 29 of 40 | 2.4× | 1.9× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 95 | 0.1% | 29 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.1× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 94 | 0.1% | 30 of 40 | 1.0× | 7.5× | |
| Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering | Critical Technology | 78 | 0.1% | 28 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.5× | |
| Chemicals & Hazardous Process Industry | Strategic Infrastructure | 77 | 0.1% | 34 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.0× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 72 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 1.1× | 1.3× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 66 | 0.1% | 35 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.3× | |
| Renewable Generation | Strategic Infrastructure | 56 | 0.1% | 30 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.6× | |
| Genomics & Biological Data | Critical Technology | 50 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.9× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 50 | 0.0% | 34 of 40 | 0.2× | 1.3× | |
| Roads & Bridges | Strategic Infrastructure | 49 | 0.2% | 29 of 40 | 2.7× | 1.4× | |
| Nutrition & Preventive Health | Human Capital | 49 | 0.2% | 31 of 40 | 1.9× | 1.4× | |
| Storage & Fuel Supply | Strategic Infrastructure | 48 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 1.1× | 2.0× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 48 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 0.6× | 1.8× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 47 | 0.0% | 34 of 40 | 0.2× | 1.1× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 47 | 0.1% | 35 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.4× | |
| Wastewater & Sanitation | Strategic Infrastructure | 47 | 0.2% | 34 of 40 | 2.0× | 2.1× |
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
Trade & Investment
Information & Influence
Financial Strength
National Security
1,066
890
714
87
62
59
50
43
Largest applicants
UNIV DO MINHO
UNIV DO PORTO
UNIV DE COIMBRA
BOSCH CAR MULTIMEDIA PORTUGAL SA
UNIV AVEIRO
INST SUPERIOR TECNICO
NOVADELTA COMERCIO E IND DE CAFES LDA
UNIV NOVA DE LISBOA
INESC TEC INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SIST E COMPUTADORES TECNOLOGIA E CIENCIA
NOVADELTA COMERCIO IND CAFES SA
189
175
118
114
104
86
72
66
59
53