In France, it is the CEA and the CNRS which filed the most European patent applications in 2025. Along with Germany and the United Kingdom, France is one of the three European countries which remain at the top in innovative patent filings.
If Europe remains a world power in research, its capacity to transform this excellence into applied technologies is not competitive with its international rivals.
The report further recommends creating a more integrated single market between the different European states in this area.
Among the approximately 800 organizations analyzed in the document, just over 90% are small or medium-sized, while large structures with real impact represent barely 10% of the total.
This gap is also widening with China, which has initiated its 15th five-year economic development plan allowing it to double down on innovation.
Among the approximately 800 organizations analyzed, a little more than 90% are small or medium-sized, so barely 10% are large structures with real impact.