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Innovation Momentum 2023:
The Global Top 100
Learn which companies are leading the future of science and technology with the 2nd annual edition of the LexisNexis report, ‘Innovation Momentum 2023: The Global Top 100’.
Who are the world’s most fast-paced innovators?
A unique methodology leveraging patent data to measure the dynamics of technology development over the past 2 years helps us discover forward-thinking patent development and identify fast-paced innovators across industries.
A must-read for IP departments, business executives, investment groups, and more, Innovation Momentum 2023: The Global Top 100 provides new perspective on the evaluation of technology owners with high innovation strength and is a gateway to understanding data-driven innovation strategy.
The report is supported by data analysis from industry-leading patent analytics solution LexisNexis® PatentSight®, seeking to bring clarity to the complexities of intellectual property.
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Companies with the Most Innovation Momentum
The Top 100 in alphabetical order, the headquarter location, and its industry sector.
Peter Berg
VP Intellectual Property
Infineon Technologies
Agile innovation
“Innovation leadership also means covering ground-breaking innovations early on and being agile with regard to the ideal timing and geographies of our patents. Both can be captured by the PatentSight indices.”
Dr. Toyohiro Hamasaki
Deputy Director, Technology and IP Strategy Division
Nitto Denko Corporation
Visualizing technology development
“As our goal is to impress our customers through innovation, we are very pleased to receive this award for the second year in a row, which is selected based on the Patent Asset Index that enables us to visualize our technological development capabilities. We will continue to pursue our daily IP activities in an honest manner.“
Yoshitaka Tanino
Vice President, Corporate Unit Legal & Intellecutal Property Group
Murata Manufacturing Co., LTd.
Strategic IP
“Thank you very much for your high evaluation of our company in Innovation Momentum. We are very honored to receive this award and recognition of our technological development and intellectual property capabilities. We will continue to promote strategic IP activities while utilizing PatentSight and provide unique products and technologies for the betterment of society as an innovator in electronics.”
The methodology behind Innovation Momentum
The methodology—which builds on the Patent Asset Index, an industry-trusted tool based on a scientifically rigorous method of assessing patent strength—provides an unbiased way of identifying innovators that have outperformed their peers in the previous two years.
Which regions are keeping pace with innovation?
Analysis of the Top 100 patent owners yields insights into this global economic transformation and provides a greater understanding of the geographic distribution of different innovations and technologies.
The industries dominating the 2023 list
Explore trends among the innovators in three select industries (Chemicals and Materials, Consumer Goods, and Medical Technologies), including comparisons within peer groups and insights into portfolio developments over the past two years in response to economic shifts and evolving policy environments.
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Innovation Momentum 2023
- The global Top 100 list, including the 2023 new entrants
- A unique methodology for measuring innovation dynamics or momentum from the unbiased perspective of patent data
- The breakdown of technology development across regions
- Insights on top 100 companies’ innovation performance against their technology peers
- Deep dives into three industries
- A view into the most fast-paced innovators in academia
Innovation Momentum Regional and Industry Distribution
Customer Story
How an Innovation Momentum Top 100 company is using IP analytics to assist its sustainability strategy
Using LexisNexis® PatentSight® IP analytics, the Merck team is able to study and understand how their innovative portfolio contributes to the overall global goals of achieving sustainability.
Additional Resources
LexisNexis names the companies leading the future of science and technology in its “Innovation Momentum 2023: The Global Top 100” report
LexisNexis® acknowledges the world’s outperforming companies with its “Innovation Momentum 2022: The Global Top 100” report.
The Top 100 Innovators Revealed in the 2023 Innovation Momentum Report
LexisNexis® Intellectual Property Solutions reveals the top 100 innovators in the Innovation Momentum 2023: The Global Top 100 report.
4 Business Cases Revolutionized by Advanced Patent Analytics
Intellectual Property departments can now bring valuable insights from advanced patent analytics to enhance business decision making.
How a Consulting Firm Uses IP Landscape Analysis to Strengthen Its Clients’ Business Strategies
By leveraging trusted IP data for an IP landscape analysis from LexisNexis® PatentSight®, Perl IP provides clients with an innovation edge.
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