In 1979, an average of one in three patents granted in the us cited the scientific literature; by 1989, this increased to a mean of one citation per patent. The common was skewed upwards by patents associated to the pharmaceutical industry, chemistry, and electronics. A 2021 evaluation reveals that patents which are based mostly on scientific discoveries are on average 26% more useful than equivalent non-science-based patents.
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