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Top 20 Key Players companies in Prosumer
by Highest Patent Value in the world in 2019

The Prosumer top 20 is Discovery PatSnap’ annual ranking of the top 20 Highest Patent Value Prosumer Key Players in the world. Discovery has identified the top key players, startups & unicorns, fast-growings, news entrants in 2019, ranking from differnt perspectives, including patent filing intensity, academic research capability, news media heat. The company list is generated from various data types.
A prosumer is a person who consumes and produces a product. The term is derived from prosumption, a dot-com era business term meaning "production by consumers". These terms were coined in 1980 by American futurist Alvin Toffler, and were widely used by many technology writers of the time. The term has since come to refer to a person using commons-based peer production. Technological breakthrough has fastened the development of prosumption. With the help of additive manufacturing techniques, for example, co-creation takes place at different production stages: design, manufacturing and distribution stages. It also takes place between individual customers, leading to co-design communities. Similarly, mass customisation is often associated with the production of tailored goods or services on a large scale production. This increase in participation has flourished following the increasing popularity of Web 2.0 technologies, such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. This rise in user participation blurs the line between production and consumption activities, with the consumer becoming a prosumer.
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Company Name
Region
Tech Topics
Total
1
Fujitsu Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
Cloud computing,Enterprise software,Information technology management,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 590,000
2
Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc.
Semiconductor,Microelectronics,Electronic component,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 590,000
3
International Business Machines Corp.
Software,Computer hardware,Enterprise software,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 140,000
4
NEC Corp.
Tokyo, Japan
Virtualization,Big data,Network security,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 110,000
5
Hitachi Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
Elevator,Electrical equipment,Electric motor,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 65,000
6
KT Corp.
Telecommunications,Internet of Things,Broadband,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 64,000
7
Korea Electric Power Corp.
Power transmission,Electricity,Electric power transmission,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 40,600
8
KEPCO KDN Co., Ltd.
Information technology
Avg patent value: 37,000
9
ELT, Inc.
Workplace harassment,Code of conduct,Workplace privacy,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 34,000
10
Korea Electronics Technology Institute
Electronics
Avg patent value: 34,000
11
Korea Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
Electronics
Avg patent value: 34,000
12
Invertech Pvt Ltd.
Delhi, India
Avg patent value: 34,000
13
IBT Co., Ltd.
GW, KR
Primary battery,Electronics,Electric motor,
...[+1]
Avg patent value: 31,000
14
SK Planet Co., Ltd.
Software,Enterprise software,Mobile banking,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 23,000
15
Inha University Research & Business Foundation
Industrial engineering
Avg patent value: 20,000
16
Isu System Co., Ltd.
Software,Information technology consulting,Systems design
Avg patent value: 19,000
17
Ampere Power Energy SL
Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
Energy storage,Electronics,Renewable energy
Avg patent value: 5,900
18
State Grid Hubei Electric Power Co., Ltd.
China
Avg patent value: 3,600
19
State Grid Corp. of China
Beijing Shi, China
Electric vehicle,Power grid,Total asset,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 3,500
20
Green Power Labs, Inc.
Nova Scotia, Canada
Information technology consulting,Climate risk,Solar energy,
...[+2]
Avg patent value: 3,400
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