Table 1 Number of biomedical patents in China from 2011 to 2020.

Number of all biomedical patents

8794

11,977

15,508

16,658

19,294

20,932

23,078

25,757

27,162

30,815

Number of biomedical patents jointly owned by hospitals and biomedical enterprises

24

25

29

33

53

47

59

61

57

72

Proportion of jointly owned patents in the number of all biomedical patents

0.27%

0.21%

0.19%

0.20%

0.27%

0.22%

0.26%

0.24%

0.21%

0.23%