The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has released The Research and Innovation Performance of the G20, a report that mines scientific research and patent information across the G20 for insights into the global strategies of the world's leading economies.
The study, which analysed citation patterns in scientific research papers and the patent portfolios of the G20 over a ten-year-period, found that emerging markets, notably China and India, have made strides in closing the research and innovation gap with developed nations. The research also finds that while both emerging and developed nations have dramatically expanded the world's total research capacity over the last decade, the US and EU have begun to lose ground in total world share of new research. The US has also begun to show declines in total global influence of its research.
Some of the key findings of the report include leaders' landscape shifts; peer-reviewed papers spike in China and India; Australia, France and Great Britain show strongest gains in scientific influence among developed nations; Physical Science and Chemistry Drive Chinese innovation; and India's Research Citation influence lags output, patents volumes remain volatile.
The full report, Research and Innovation Performance of the G20, provides detailed snapshots of research citation and patent filing metrics for each G20 nation, along with a detailed commentary on key trends shaping the research and innovation agenda in each region. Data for this report were compiled using Thomson Reuters Web of ScienceTM, InCitesTM and Derwent World Patents Index.
