South Korea and China lead the West in patent filings where at least one female inventor was named.
In Korea it’s over 50%; in China it’s 48%.
In third place is the Western. country with the highest percentage – Belgium.
Then came Spain (35%), the USA (33%) France (32%) Netherlands, India and Switzerland (28%) Finland (25%) Canada and Denmark (24%) UK and Sweden (23%) Australia (21%) Japan (20%) Germany (19%) Italy (18%) Austria (16%).
The figures were compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organisation and released to coincide with last Thursday’s World IP Day.