External Funding, Licences and Protective Rights 2016

External Funding 2016

In 2016, Forschungszentrum Jülich's third-party funding totalled EUR 247.2 million. Most of this income from third parties resulted from research and development activities for industry, the acquisition of funding from Germany and abroad, plus project management on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Licenses 2016

Licences 2016	Number
Total	86
of which new	7
of which discounted	-
Total share foreign	26
Share USA (most important partner country)	13
Share SMEs	65

Income from licences: € 321,000

Patents

2016	Number
Patent applications Germany	47
Patent applications abroad	37
Total patents granted	138
of which technologies for which a patent was granted for the first time	-
Patents granted Germany	13
Patents granted abroad	125

Total number of patent rights	Number
2001	7,310
2002	7,413
2003	8,705
2004	13,301
2005	17,054
2006	17,710
2007	15,625
2008	16,276
2009	15,377
2010	14,793
2011	16,159
2012	16,897
2013	17,559
2014	17,956
2015	16,634
2016	15,061