PATENTS
April 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLGERMANY appears to be the most industrially innovative country in the European Union, filing 43.6 per cent of all EU patent applications with the European Patent office in 1999, well ahead of its nearest rival France, which filed just 14.9 per cent. On a patents per million workers basis, Germany also scored highest, with 493 applications, followed by Sweden at 478 and Finland at 455, with Britain, at 191, below the EU average of 261. Easily the least innovative was Portugal, with a miserly six per million, with Spain, (43), and Greece, (15), ...
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