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Economy

Patents Owned, Applied And Awarded, Annual

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH

Data Last Updated: 06/07/2026

Update Frequency: Annual

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M081351

Data from Jan 1994 to Dec 2023

Last updated 4 days ago (11 Sep 2026)

Updated annually

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PatentsOwnedAppliedAndAwardedAnnual.csv (9 rows, 2.1 KB)

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Patents Owned, As At End Of Period17631153841643012985102531011497841153485756579527550484763545060615455578647173475257023141739145612681077847831614256204
Public Sector1921205918071657155815361679161214631356129512511208998151910111122965772624430315242223nananananana
Private Sector1571013325146231132886958578810599227112522339803797355544524542444446643752270319461884142412141045nananananana
Patents Applied513941073644296725942896285219972090196521441722191317621562158117272036159412571001936903774673579490316242263
Public Sector854915952904669655682912858834821698610499445354312475427480272276277116nananananana
Private Sector4285319226922063192522412170108512321131132310241303126311171227141515611167777729660626658nananananana
Patents Awarded3116252319191510147813561290988988911934817855653747730953933877599460451410239161136132915158
Public Sector2342322382342212552722672542042171551761311761441621561511661151016432nananananana
Private Sector2882229116811276125711011018721734707717662679522571586791777726433345350346207nananananana
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a85d41061a8dc5a9f7c33628f5dc72e7"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Patents Owned, Applied And Awarded, Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a85d41061a8dc5a9f7c33628f5dc72e7/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)