Category Deep-Dive · Leadfeeder 2026

Innovation output: patents, trademarks and knowledge work

Each dot is a country. Right = ranks higher on innovation (patent and trademark filings per million, plus the share of jobs in knowledge-intensive work); up = ranks higher overall. Innovation is the widest-spread category in the study, so dots scatter further from the diagonal than they do for digitalisation.

Top 5 for innovation
Ranks far off its overall place
Other countries
Median rank Perfect correlation
Data: WIPO (patent and trademark applications per million), Eurostat (knowledge-intensive employment); overall ranking by Leadfeeder.