List of the top 100 European Patent Applicants in 2007

Hartmut Buettner @ May 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet

The 100 most active applicants filed almost one third of all patent applications out of the 141,000 applications received by the EPO (European Patent Office) in 2007. The top 500 applicants accounted for half of the applications filed, and the 10 most active companies accounted for 11% of the total.

Rank
Company

Count

1

PHILIPS

3,222

2

SAMSUNG

2,478

3

SIEMENS

1,850

4

BASF

1,474

5

MATSUSHITA

1,395

6

ROBERT BOSCH

1,166

7

LG

1,080

8

SONY

929

9

NOKIA

873

10

FUJITSU

819

Source: http://www.epo.org/about-us/…
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Life Science Competence in Europe

Hartmut Buettner @ November 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The recently completed Life Competence database is an online network and knowledge sharing contact system filled with all 680 research projects in healthcare biotechnology funded by the EU Commission under FP6 (Sixth Framework Programme).
The database does not only allow companies and other project partners to check what research is going on in the area of [...]

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2008 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard

Hartmut Buettner @ November 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The 2008 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, released in October 2008, presents information on 2000 companies from around the world reporting major investments in R&D. The set of companies it covers comprises the top 1000 R&D investors whose registered offices are in the EU and the top 1000 registered elsewhere.
Some of the findings presented in [...]

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EU Funding Guide for Research and Innovation

Hartmut Buettner @ November 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The EU support for research, technological development and innovation (RTDI) is provided mainly through the Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7), the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the Structural Funds.
The “Practical Guide to EU funding opportunities for Research and Innovation” explains how the value of these programmes can be increased by combining these funding sources. [...]

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