A REPORT on the patent index regarding the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) was released at a forum held Saturday in South China’s Guangdong Province.

The report was released by the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at a session of the GBA Science Forum.

The GBA has seen a surge in patent applications, with dominance in overseas invention patents licensed nationwide. Between 2017 and 2022, overseas invention patents in the GBA accounted for more than a quarter of the country’s total overseas invention patents licensed, said the report.

The report added that enterprises play a pivotal role in driving technological innovation in the GBA. From 2017 to 2022, the number of invention patent applications by enterprises in the GBA accounted for 73.44% of the area’s total patent applications.(Xinhua)