Patent application in 2007
1 USA 52280
2 Japan 2773 1
3 Germany 18 134
4 Korea 706 1
5 France 6370
6 UK 5553
7 China 5456
8 Netherlands 4 186
9 Switzerland 3674
10 Sweden 3533
1 1 Italy 2927
12 Canada 2707
13 Australia 2054
Finland 1952
Israel 1683
Denmark 1 154
Spain 1 143
Belgium 1060
19 Austria 976
20 India
2 1 Norway 567
22 Singapore
23 Russia
24 South Africa 390
25 Brazil
26 Ireland
27 Turkey
28 New Zealand 29 1
29 Mexico 173
Hungary 160
The number of scientific and technological patents can better reflect a country's intelligence level than per capita GDP. Because GDP is greatly influenced by resources, geography and other factors, and science and technology patents are completely the crystallization of intelligence and experience.