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the top performers in a variety of international rankings. For
example, South Korea remained as the global-innovation

gold medalist in Bloomberg’s Innovation Ranking 2018 for
five consecutive years.

China is also performing outstandingly, with 48% of patents

including the participation of female inventors, followed by
Belgium (36%), Spain (35%) and the United States (33%).

These female inventors mainly contributed in

270 biotechnology (accounting for 58% of all WIPO's
international patent applications in 2017), pharmaceuticals
(56%), organic fine chemistry (55%) and food chemistry (51%).

There are female inventors in well over 60% of the patent
producing companies in South Korea, Switzerland,
France, the U.S., and Germany. Their participation in
academic institutions is even more prominent: more

than 80% of patent applications from the Electronics and
Telecommunications Research Institute of Korea have
female members; while four institutions in mainland China
including the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology