Some studies suggest that the number of patent applications can be used as an indicator to quantify the potential for innovation of industry sectors such as the textile industry. This paper shows the distribution of worldwide economic power and patent applications between 1978 and 2004 in the textile and textile machinery industry based on the example of for Germany. The number of patent applications from the textile sector is compared to that of other industries. Subsequently, the patent statistics are broken down into individual enterprises with outstanding numbers of applications, as well as to individual countries and branches within the textile industry.
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