China Leads India on Drug Patents and Academic Drug Research

China’s academic and research institutions received 15% of all patents granted worldwide for drug research in 2007-2008. That far outpaced the 2% that India’s institutions were awarded, and it also handily topped the 5% garnered by US academics. In terms of scientific papers, Indian researchers are third in the world, having published 4,642 biopharma papers in the last decade. However, during the same time period, China published 5,720, good for second place, and the US took first place with 13, 314. More details....