Digital technologies, technological improvement rates, and innovations “Made in Switzerland”

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 6 Distribution of countries’ patents across industries

Country	Chemical	Computer/ICT	Electrical	Machinery	Medical	Pharma	Others
Canada	0.05	0.40	0.05	0.15	0.02	0.07	0.26
China	0.05	0.54	0.10	0.10	0.01	0.06	0.14
France	0.10	0.32	0.04	0.13	0.02	0.15	0.24
Germany	0.12	0.24	0.06	0.18	0.04	0.10	0.26
Japan	0.07	0.43	0.06	0.19	0.02	0.03	0.20
South Korea	0.06	0.59	0.08	0.10	0.01	0.03	0.13
Switzerland	0.10	0.20	0.05	0.14	0.06	0.22	0.23
UK	0.07	0.40	0.04	0.15	0.03	0.13	0.18
USA	0.06	0.38	0.05	0.14	0.05	0.08	0.24

Patents are assigned to industries using the probabilities calculated as proposed by De Rassenfosse et al. (2014), where we make a unique match based on the highest probability. In order to assign patents to countries, we assign the patent to each country for which an inventor address exists. The numbers show the countries’ share of USPTO patents for different industries of the filing years 2010–2015