Bringing Clarity to Sustainable Innovation
To inspire urgent action, we have developed an objective way to track and evaluate the most critical global initiative: Sustainability.
What is Sustainable Innovation?
Sustainable innovation refers to the development of new products, processes, and practices that meet current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.
According to the UN Global Compact, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 can lead to a thriving planet while unlocking $12 trillion in business opportunities.
Companies, therefore, have a significant opportunity to elevate their sustainability goals and take decisive actions to develop disruptive technologies in this space. Understanding sustainable patent innovations can reveal a lot about a company‘s vision.
Featured Podcast
Listen to our latest episode ‘Innovations Supporting UNSDG’s that features Chris Harrison, Patent Analytics Manager at the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Mapping patents to the U.N. SDGs:
An objective way to measure sustainable innovation
We developed a revolutionary way to make sustainable innovation identifiable, searchable, and trackable by mapping the global patent system to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
By introducing the LexisNexis® PatentSight® SDG mapping, we were the first provider to meet the growing demand from companies for an unbiased sustainability measure, bringing clarity to innovation and inspiring urgent action to meet the planet’s challenges. It has since been used by leading global patent-holding organizations to track and demonstrate their progress towards sustainable technology developments
In 2024, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) partnered with LexisNexis to reveal the industries, technologies and companies leading the charge for sustainable innovation.
Understanding Sustainable Innovation
Sustainability is the new value indicator for investors and a key consumer decision-making factor.
The 3-step process below explains how you can use the objective and forward-looking measurements of patents to bring the topic of sustainability to your organization.
Gather Intelligence
Understand sustainable progress and identify gaps in sustainable technology development.
Build Roadmap
Develop a strategy for sustainable technology investment.
Communicate
Share progress on SDGs and roadmap to reach 2030 goals.
Videos
Our patent experts have mapped 13 of the 17* SDGs to the LexisNexis® database of high-quality patent data from more than 95 patent authorities worldwide, analyzing over 147 million global patent documents behind 14 million active patent families. *(SDGs 8, 10,16 and 17 are not technology-driven and are therefore not mappable to patents)
An Objective Way to Track and Measure Sustainability
Webinar on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Unveiling the Top Contributors to the Global Sustainability Agenda
Be at the forefront of sustainability progress. Download our game-changing IP report for a comprehensive view of the world’s top contributors to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
View an interactive dashboard of the Top 300 Sustainable Innovators
Slice and dice the Top 300 sustainable innovators by both the Absolute strength of their SDG-relevant patents and the Share of SDG-relevant strength of their entire portfolio. Filter by industry, region, and more.
“Patents help fuel innovation and speed the innovation life cycle. By analyzing patents we can understand the level of progress in sustainable innovation. For the analysis we worked with LexisNexis and leveraged their extensive research they put into their SDG patent mapping methodology over the last three years. It is a very robust mapping methodology and thus we used their worldwide patent data mapped to the SDGs as the basis for our analysis.”
Chris Harrison, Patent Analytics Manager and Project Lead,
World Intellectual Property Organization
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Explore the sustainable innovation patent landscape
Which UN SDGs have the most contributions from the development of innovative technologies? Here we see a visualization of the technology categories mapped to each goal, where the size of the bubble represents the strength of the related patent families, as measured by the Patent Asset Index. To see the complete list of technologies, download the report.
Featured Content
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The Green Race: Using Patent Data to Uncover Insights Into the Future of Automotive Sustainability
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The Global Hotspots of Sustainable Innovation: The Regions With the Most Sustainability Leaders
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Does Mapping Patents to the UN SDGs Help Reveal the Most Sustainable Companies?
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Podcast
Innovation-led Sustainability
Episode 1 in Season 3 of the Cipher Vision Podcast series features Gregorio Ossola, Head of Corporate Solutions at one.five.
SDGs Through a Patent Lens
Episode 7 in Season 3 of the Cipher Vision Podcast series features Marco Richter, Global Head of Customer Success at LexisNexis Intellectual Property.
Decoding the Patent Language for Global Sustainability
In this episode of the “World We Want” podcast, Márcia Balisciano interviews Marco Richter, Global Head of Customer Success, LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions. They discuss how businesses and policymakers can leverage intellectual property (IP) frameworks to promote environment-friendly technologies and practices.
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In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, IP professionals face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex maze of intellectual property on top of increasing cost pressures. These challenges demand clear, actionable insights to make strategic decisions with confidence.
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R&D and innovation
Sustainable innovation analytics
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