Technology Strength™:
provides an aggregate assessment of patents and innovation by considering the combined quality and
quantity aspects of a company’s portfolio.
Industry Impact™: quantifies
how influential a company’s patent portfolio is on the development of technologies in other
companies, compared to rest of the industry.
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Patents Granted:
equals the number of industry-specific U.S. patents granted in a given year,
excluding design and other special-case inventions. Only industry-specific patent
counts are represented for the multi-industry companies.
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Science Strength™: measures,
at an aggregate level, the degree to which a company’s patent portfolio is linked to core science.
Research Intensity™: tracks a
company’s level of fundamental research in a given industry compared to other companies, portfolios
and patents across the same technology areas.
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Innovation Cycle Time™: indicates
the speed at which a company turns leading-edge technology and core research into patent assets.
Measured in years, a lower number is most desirable.
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