For the first time ever, DTU is among the three organizations in Denmark that apply for the most patents. Only Vestas and Novozymes submitted more applications in 2024, according to a new report from the Danish Patent and Trademark Office. DTU writes this in a press release.
84 times during the past year, DTU submitted a patent application to the European Patent Office, EPO, to protect new technology developed by the university's researchers. This places DTU in third place after Vestas with 95 and Novozymes with 85 applications.
- The high ranking is an expression of the fact that we at DTU have both innovative and skilled employees and a culture that values entrepreneurship highly. The knowledge we create must go out into society and be useful, and it does so, among other things, through patents, which benefit both startups, spinouts and existing companies,
says Group Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at DTU Marianne Thellersen.
The figures from the EPO also show that DTU is also the university in Europe that has sent the fourth most patent applications in 2024. Only the two Swiss universities ETH Zurich and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the Belgian KU Leuven are higher.
According to Marianne Thellersen, patenting is not an end in itself.
- The goal is to realize the full potential of the innovation that takes place at DTU - and it is present in everything we do. We educate our students to think new things, we collaborate with industry on new solutions and we support our researchers in commercializing and disseminating the technologies they develop,
she says.
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