Bioeconomy Patents
The Patent Dashboard for the Bioeconomy sectors is a tool designed to provide insights into innovation dynamics within the European Union. This interactive platform offers an overview of the patent landscape, sectoral structure, and trends across bioeconomy activities, including fields such as bio-based textiles, wooden products and furniture, paper, and bio-based chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and rubber (excluding biofuels).
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How to cite
Grassano Nicola; González-Hermoso, Hugo; M'barek, Robert; (2025): Patenting in the Bioeconomy: An Analysis of Trends and Patterns in the EU. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC144079
Related documents
- Grassano, N., M`barek, R. and Gonzalez Hermoso, H., Patenting in the Bioeconomy: An Analysis of Trends and Patterns in the EU, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2025, https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC144079, JRC144079.
- Grassano, N., Napolitano, L., M’barek, R., Rodriguez Cerezo, E. and Lasarte Lopez, J., Exploring the global landscape of biotech innovation: preliminary insights from patent analysis, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/567451, JRC137266
- Lasarte-López, J., M’barek, R., Ronzon, T. and Tamosiunas, S. J., EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System indicators update: Jobs and value added in the EU bioeconomy 2020 (BMS-Jobs&Growth, May 2023 release), Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2023, doi:10.2760/761583, JRC133484.
- Van Looy, B., Vereyen, C., & Schmoch, U. Patent Statistics: Concordance IPC V8-NACE Rev. 2 (version 2.0). Final report, EUROSTAT, 2015, Luxembourg.
Other Research Briefs relevant for the European Union Bioeconomy:
- Jobs and wealth in the EU bioeconomy
- Multiplying effects of the Bioeconomy
- The Sankey Biomass Diagram
Methodology
The methodology is described Grassano, N., M`barek, R. and Gonzales Hermoso, H., Patenting in the Bioeconomy: An Analysis of Trends and Patterns in the EU, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2025, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/7289639, JRC144079.
Patent data present in this dataset refers to IP5 patent families. IP5 patent families are defined as international patents filed at multiple offices, including at least one from the IP5 consortium (European Patent Office [EPO], United States Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO], Japan Patent Office [JPO], Korean Intellectual Property Office [KIPO], and China National Intellectual Property Administration [CNIPA]). Patent families are fractionally allocated based on both applicant and sector.
Data sources
Three economic indicators have been estimated for the selected sectors in this document: Number of persons employed, Value Added (million Euro) and Business Expenditure on R&D (million Euro).
Data are retrieved from the EPO Patstat database (2024 Spring Edition), including the IPC – NACE conversion already calculated in the Patstat database.
For hybrid sectors (where products contain both biomass and fossil-, mineral- or synthetic-based content), only the bioeconomy component is accounted for. This calculation uses national bio-based shares following Lasarte-López et al. (2023)
