You have probably guessed already: last year (2019) China lodged 1.54 million patent applications at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (see here). Staggeringly, this is about equal to the rest of the world put together. By comparison, the United States dropped to 597,141, followed by Japan (313,567) and South Korea (209,992). Simply put, China is … Continue reading What country leads the world in science andinnovation?