During the period of 2065 438+00-2065 438+08, the number of patent applications in the fields of Internet of Things, big data, 5G, artificial intelligence and so on increased by 20% every year. Research shows that the growth rate of technical fields covered by the fourth industrial revolution is five times the average level of all other technical fields.
This report summarizes the main trends of industrial 4.0 technology innovation from 20 10 to 20 18 in the form of international patent family (IPF) for the first time. Each patent family represents a high-value invention, including patent applications submitted by two or more patent agencies around the world. Because patent applications are submitted months or even years before products are put on the market, they are usually regarded as early indicators of future technological trends.
In just 20 18 years, global enterprises and institutions have submitted nearly 40,000 new IPF in the field of industrial 4.0 technology, accounting for more than 10% of the total number of global patents. In the same year, there were more than 2,000 intellectual property rights from Germany, accounting for more than 5% of the total global patents.
This makes Germany in a leading position in Europe in this field, contributing almost one-third of the new inventions in Europe. However, Germany ranks fifth in the world, behind the United States, Japan, South Korea and China. The annual growth rate of German IPF is 14.9%, which is far behind that of the United States (18.5%), South Korea (25.2%) and China (39.3%).
Germany has highly specialized capabilities in three technical fields: security, positioning and data management. These technologies are usually combined with networked objects and widely used in automobile, manufacturing and agriculture.
However, according to this research, Germany is at a significant disadvantage in the core technologies of Industry 4.0, such as IT hardware, software and connectivity, artificial intelligence and so on.
Globally, from 20 10 to 20 18, Korean companies Samsung and LG are the two companies with the largest number of patent applications.
German top company Siemens ranking 18. As can be seen from the types of patents, Siemens pays more attention to the research and development of data management, especially in planning and control, analysis and diagnosis, connectivity and so on. The company is highly focused on manufacturing, healthcare, infrastructure and smart car applications.
Among all research institutions, the Flawn Hof Application Association ranks second, second only to the Korean research institution ETRI.
The research also shows that innovation ability is mainly concentrated in innovation clusters in some areas. The 20 largest innovation clusters in the world are innovation leaders in their respective countries. More than half (56.3%) of Industry 4.0 patents come from these clusters. In Germany, it mainly involves three clusters, Munich (17), Stuttgart (20) and Nuremberg (3 1).
The annual growth rate of innovation clusters in Munich is 16. 1%. Industry 4.0 topics studied by enterprises in this respect include positioning, data security, 3D systems and vehicles. Siemens, BMW and audi ag (its subsidiary Audi is located in Ingolstadt) contributed 40% of IPF to the cluster.