EconSight Publications

WIPO IPC-Green Technology Concordance EconSight helps WIPO build the first harmonized global standard for measuring green innovation How do you measure green innovation when no two institutions agree on what "green" even means? The problem is real. When we compared the three most widely used green patent classifications (EPO, OECD and WIPO), only 11.3% of green patent families were shared across all three. Different definitions produce different numbers — which makes credible international comparison almost impossible. That ends now. EconSight is proud to have helped WIPO build the IPC–Green Technology Concordance (WIPO–GTIS) — the [...]

The new GenAI Report for WIPO Generative AI has entered a new phase - patents have doubled in just one year. The latest WIPO/EconSight report shows that more than 38,000 new GenAI patent families were published in 2025 alone, more than double that of 2024. Companies are moving from experimentation to large-scale deployment. This is an update to the GenAI Patent Landscape Report from 2024 which EconSight carried out for WIPO. Key findings include: LLMs have become the dominant architecture, overtaking earlier approaches like GANs, while diffusion and multimodal systems widen the field — [...]

The new Patent Landscape Report "Decarbonizing Heavy-Duty Road Transport" for WIPO Innovation Accelerates in Decarbonizing Heavy-Duty Road Transport Heavy-duty road transport - trucks and buses - is essential to the global economy, but also a major source of emissions, accounting for 40% of total road transport emissions worldwide. With the sector still overwhelmingly dependent on fossil fuels, accelerating innovation in low-emission technologies is becoming increasingly critical. The new EconSight patent landscape report for the World Intellectual Property Organisation in collaboration with the International Renewable Energy Agency analyzes global innovation trends from 2000-2024 across the [...]

New study - Process Technologies The new EconSight study for the Bavarian Industry Association examines importance of process technologies for the industrial sector. The study uses patent analysis to examine global research activities in key process technologies and their significance for major future technology fields. A high level of expertise in process and procedural technologies is extremely important for the industrial base. This is particularly relevant in the ongoing transformation processes. Those who master the further development, optimisation and renewal of individual production steps are well positioned to process new [...]

Future of Transportation Report Official Release of the WIPO Future of Transportation Report «The Future of Transportation - The new WIPO Technology Trends Report 2025 is now available» EconSight worked with the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO for almost two years on the report. The report dives into the transformative changes reshaping the transportation sector. The report, based on patent data and scientific literature data complemented by business information, policy, regulation and standards data looks at transportation technologies and trends across land, sea, air and space. It identifies four primary technology trend [...]

New WIPO GenAI Patent Landscape Report by EconSight Top Countries in GenAI (cumulated filings 2014-2023 by inventor address)  Top Patent Owners in GenAI (cumulated filings by owner, 2014-2023)  The new WIPO GenAI Patent Landscape Report, based on EconSight data has been published «The most detailed analysis of GenAI» The definitive report on GenAI has been published. EconSight is proud to have contributed to the WIPO GenAI Patent Landscape Report by providing the patent data and the complex definition of the GenAI technology and search algorithm. This is [...]

New study on advanced digitisation in 90 applied technologies The new EconSight study for the Bavarian Industry Association has been published «Digital competitiveness from a global perspective» As a cross-sectional technology, digitalisation drives the transformation of other technologies and leads to new products and processes in these technologies. This means that future technological performance depends heavily on whether the digitalisation of these application technologies succeeds. This study analyses the world-class patents at the intersection between the 90 most important application technologies and 21 advanced digital technologies. The advanced digital technologies [...]

Green tech made in Germany: how fit for the future are we? The new EconSight study for the Bertelsmann Foundation has been published «Green tech made in Germany: how fit for the future are we?» Climate change requires a fundamental transformation of our economy, particularly in the areas of industry, energy and transportation. This transformation cannot succeed without accelerated technological development and innovation due to the high time pressure. After all, achieving the decarbonization targets would overstretch the capacities of mature technologies in Germany. Negative emissions (e.g. through carbon dioxide [...]

The 1000 best companies in 100 green technologies These companies are expected to make significant technological progress for more climate protection and sustainability in the coming years Companies are part of the solution in the climate challenge Climate protection and sustainability are among the most important global challenges. In the debate on climate change, companies are often the focus of criticism on the basis of their CO2 emissions alone. However, the climate targets can only be achieved through the joint efforts of politics, society and business. The innovative power of companies plays a central [...]

Introducing a new dynamic patent technology indicator Introducing DynaPTI - a dynamic patent technology indicator We have developed a new patent-based indicator that reflects company-level dynamics regarding their technological quality and technological activity. We combine patent quality dynamics and patent quantity dynamics with machine-learning techniques for an index-based company comparison. Our new dynamic patent technology indicator (DynaPTI) provides precise and up-to-date assessments about company-level innovation activities. We have published the concept in "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence" in cooperation with the Center for International Economics and Business at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Download the [...]