Top Seven big Pharma in Thomson Reuters 2015 Top 100 Global Innovators
Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
NAME | COUNTRY | PREVIOUS WINNER | PREVIOUS WINNER | PREVIOUS WINNER |
Abbott | USA |
2014 |
2013 | |
Bayer | GERMANY |
2011 |
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Boehringer
Ingelheim |
GERMANY | |||
Brinstol-Myers Squibb | USA |
2011 |
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J&J | USA |
2014 |
2013 |
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Novartis | Switzerland |
2014 |
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Roche | Switzerland |
2014 |
2013 |
2012, 2011 |
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Introducing the Thomson Reuters 2015 Top 100 Global Innovators Organization Country Industry Previous Winners
New in 2015:
Top Bay Area Innovators For the first time, Thomson Reuters analysts studied Silicon Valley, known as the technology and innovation corridor in the US, to see which companies are leading there. Following a methodology similar to that of the Top 100 Global Innovators, except for the Volume criteria, all companies headquartered or with a major subsidiary in that region were investigated. The Top Bay Area Innovators list can be found on page 19. There are 11 companies that overlap with the Top 100 Global Innovators; meaning 31 percent of the leading US innovators and 11 percent of the world’s top innovators are located in the Bay Area.
Absentees:
The United Kingdom is absent from the list yet again this year. Innovation incentives introduced in the UK, such as Patent Box legislation, do not have enough legacy yet to have had an impact. Additionally, the UK spends much less on R&D as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GERD) than the Top 100 Global Innovator countries do. The UK’s GERDis 1.63 percent, whereas, for example, Japan’s is 3.47 percent.5 The region’s underuse of its patent system and lack of significant commercialization keep the UK from making the list once again.
China is also absent from the 2015 list. It joined the innovation-leader ranks in 2014, for the first time, via Huawei, however wasn’t able to replicate that performance to join again in 2015. A big factor contributing to China’s shortcoming is the fact that most of its innovation is domestic and therefore is not realized outside of its borders. In fact, only about six percent of China’s innovation activity is protected, and commercialized, outside of China. In order for China to see more organizations join this prestigious group, it will need to think more internationally and look to bring its inventions to market around the world. There are 27 companies that dropped from the prior year (see Table 1 on page 12), including AT&T, IBM, Siemens and Xerox. While these companies are still innovating at noteworthy levels, their respective scores across all of the metrics did not advance them to the Top 100. It’s expected that we will see them again in the future.
Patent Reform
There’s been some influential intellectual property legislation that is shaping how companies innovate, where they seek protection and when. Some of these initiatives include the America Invents Act and the Patent Trial & Appeal Board; the European unitary patent and unified patent court; the UK’s Patent Box legislation; and impactful court rulings, such as Alice 101 in the US. The landscape is ripe with reform as patent offices and filers grapple with how best to implement these changes given their goals and needs. Despite these changes, one thing remains certain: the patent system is vital to protecting innovation and to the economic wellbeing of organizations, nations and our world. OECD statistics confirm that nations with higher GDPs have similarly high patent filing rates (aka strong patent infrastructures), whereas the converse holds equally true. One way for developing nations to propel their economies forward is to invest in innovation and building a reliable intellectual property infrastructure.
Methodology
The Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovator methodology analyzes patent and citation data across four main criteria:
- volume,
- success,
- globalization and
- influence
using Thomson Reuters solutions including Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI), Thomson Innovation and Derwent Patent Citations Index (PCI).
Volume
Volume is the first criteria. An organization must have at least 100 unique inventions protected by a granted patent over the most recent five year period to advance for further analysis. A unique invention is defined as one instance of a published application or granted patent for an idea for which protection is sought. In DWPI, these are called “basic” patents. DWPI provides access to 50 patentissuing authorities. Subsequent filings for the same invention are recorded as equivalents and collated into patent families which, for this analysis, were not included. Once an organization passes the volume stage gate, it is measured across the next three criteria: success, globalization and influence.
Success
The success metric covers the ratio of inventions described in published applications (those patents which are filed and publicly published by the patent office but not yet granted) to inventions protected with granted patents over the most recent five years. Not all patent applications pass through the examination process and are granted.
Globalization
Globalization has to do with the value an organization places on an invention by protecting it across the major world markets. The premise being that inventions protected in all four of the Thomson Reuters Quadrilateral Patent Index authorities: the Chinese Patent Office, the European Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office and the United States Patent & Trademark Office, are deemed to be of significant value to the organization. A ratio is created of the inventions protected across the Quadrilateral Patent Index authorities versus the total volume for that period. Influence Finally,
Influence
influence is the downstream impact of an invention, measured by how often it is cited by other organizations. Via the Derwent Patent Citation Index, citations to an organization’s patents are counted over the most recent five years, excluding self citations. Scores for each of these areas are tallied and combined to produce the Top 100 Global Innovator list.
Top 100 Global Innovator list
3M Company USA Chemical 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Abbott Laboratories USA Pharmaceutical 2013, 2014
Advanced Micro Devices USA Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Air Products USA Chemical 2013
Aisin Seiki Japan Automotive 2014
Alcatel-Lucent France Telecommunication & Equipment 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Alstom France Electrical Power
Amazon USA Media Internet Search & Navigation Systems
Analog Devices USA Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2011, 2012, 2013
Apple USA Telecommunication & Equipment 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Arkema France Chemical 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Avago Technologies (previously LSI) USA Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2011,2012, 2013, 2014
BASF Germany Chemical 2011, 2014
Bayer Germany Pharmaceutical 2011
Becton Dickinson USA Medical Devices
Blackberry Canada Telecommunication & Equipment 2013, 2014
Boehringer Ingelheim Germany Pharmaceutical
Boeing USA Aerospace 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Bridgestone Japan Automotive
Bristol-Myers Squibb USA Pharmaceutical 2011
Canon Japan Imaging 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Casio Computer Japan Computer Hardware 2014
Chevron USA Oil & Gas 2011, 2012, 2013
CNRS, The French National Center for Scientific Research France Scientific Research 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
CEA–The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission France Scientific Research 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Daikin Industries Japan Industrial 2011, 2014
Dow Chemical Company USA Chemical 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
DuPont USA Chemical 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Emerson Electric USA Electrical Products 2012, 2013, 2014
Ericsson Sweden Telecommunication & Equipment 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Exxon Mobil USA Oil & Gas 2011, 2012, 2013
Fraunhofer Germany Scientific Research 2013, 2014
Freescale Semiconductor USA Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2013, 2014
Fujifilm Japan Imaging 2012, 2013, 2014
Fujitsu Japan Computer Hardware 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Furukawa Electric Japan Electrical Products 2014
General Electric USA Consumer Products 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Google (now Alphabet Inc.) USA Media Internet Search & Navigation Systems 2012, 2013, 2014
Hitachi Japan Computer Hardware 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Honda Motor Japan Automotive 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Honeywell International USA Electrical Products 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Idemitsu Kosan Japan Oil & Gas
IFP Energies Nouvelles France Scientific Research 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Intel USA Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
InterDigital USA Telecommunication & Equipment
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Japan Scientific Research
Johnson & Johnson USA Pharmaceutical 2013, 2014
Johnson Controls USA Automotive
JTEKT Japan Automotive Kawasaki Heavy Industries Japan Industrial
Kobe Steel Japan Primary Metals 2014
Komatsu Japan Industrial 2014
Kyocera Japan Electrical Products 2014
LG Electronics S Korea Consumer Products 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Lockheed Martin USA Transportation Equipment 2012, 2013, 2014
LSIS S Korea Electrical Power 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Makita Corporation Japan Machinery
Marvell USA Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2012, 2013, 2014
MediaTek Taiwan Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2014
Medtronic USA Medical Devices 2014
Micron USA Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2012, 2013, 2014
Microsoft USA Computer Software 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Mitsubishi Electric Japan Electrical Products 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Japan Machinery 2012, 2013, 2014
Mitsui Chemicals Japan Chemical NEC Japan Computer Hardware 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Nike USA Consumer Products 2012, 2013, 2014
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Japan Primary Metals 2012, 2013, 2014
Nissan Motor Japan Automotive 2013, 2014
Nitto Denko Japan Chemical 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Novartis Switzerland Pharmaceutical 2014 2015
NTT Japan Telecommunication & Equipment 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Olympus Japan Healthcare Products 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Oracle USA Computer Software 2013, 2014
Panasonic Japan Consumer Products 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Philips Netherlands Electrical Products 2011, 2013, 2014
Qualcomm USA Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Roche Switzerland Pharmaceutical 2011,2012,2013, 2014
Safran France Transportation Equipment 2013, 2014
Saint-Gobain France Industrial 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Samsung Electronics S Korea Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Seagate USA Computer Hardware 2012, 2013, 2014
Seiko Epson Japan Imaging 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Shin-Etsu Chemical Japan Chemical 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Showa Denko Japan Chemical
Solvay Belgium Chemical 2012
Sony Japan Consumer Products 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Sumitomo Electric Japan Industrial 2011, 2013, 2014
Symantec USA Computer Software 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
TE Connectivity Switzerland Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Thales France Transportation Equipment 2012, 2013
Toray Japan Chemical
Toshiba Japan Computer Hardware 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Toyota Motor Japan Automotive 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Valeo France Automotive 2012, 2013
Xilinx USA Semiconductor & Electronic Components 2012, 2013, 2014
Yamaha Japan Consumer Products 2011, 2014
Yamaha Motor Japan Automotive
Yaskawa Electric Japan Industrial
Yazaki Japan Automotive
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