In less than two decades, the amount of collaboration in global innovation initiatives has grown exponentially, finds a new report from the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization.
According to the 2019 World Intellectual Property Report, between the early 2000s and the second half of the 2010s, the number of scientific papers authored by teams of multiple scientists compared to individual scientists surged from 64 percent to just under 90 percent. In the same time period, the percentage of patents filed by teams rather than individuals grew from 54 percent to 68 percent.
