HR · 2006 · pat_ep_ntot
Patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017)
Croatia, 2006
In 2006, Croatia's patent applications to the EPO by priority year (1977-2017) increased by 6.1% compared to 2005, reaching 35.
Croatia accounts for 0.1% of the EU-27 total of 52,599.
Croatia ranks 20th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 66.7% (from 21 in 2001).
Source: Eurostat dataset pat_ep_ntot, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.