Quantifying Innovation: Intellectual Property Data as Indicators of Technology Maturity of Metal–Organic- Frameworks and Inorganic Nanoparticles

Figure 1. Applications, grants, and priorities of MOFs (a) and iNPs (b) Figure 2. Scientific publications for MOFs and iNPs Figure 3. Grant rate in percentage (a) and family size average (b) for iNPs (orange) and MOFs (blue) technologies. Figure 4. Patents life average evolution (blue line), and maximum patent life (red line) for MOFs (a) and iNPs (b). Figure 5: Scope–Year index evolution of the patent families in MOF and iNP technologies: (a) annual aggregate (sum across families by priority year); (b) average SY per family. Figure 6. Citations of MOFs (a) and iNPs (b). Left, citations received by families born between 1990 and 2020; right, average citations per family between1990 and 2020 (zoomed portion of the average citation per family since 2000).