In 2023, the AI revolution reached new heights with remarkable growth. Aerospace & Defense witnessed a surge in AI-related activities, filling 149 new patents (-54% with respect to 2022) on Artificial Intelligence.
This plot displays the number of ai patents on Aerospace & Defense over time.
There has been a striking divergence in Aerospace & Defense development across countries over time. Overall, we observe that most of the development in the field lies in a few advanced countries.
The countries with more number of patents in Aerospace & Defense in the period 2019-2023 were China, United States, Japan, France, and Germany.
This treemap visualization offers a comprenhensive overview of AI distribution across countries in Aerospace & Defense.
This visualization underscores the pervasive nature of AI across the economy, highlighting both expected and surprising areas of AI startup concentration and innovation.
Here we provide a visual representation of country-level competitiveness by comparing the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) on the x-axis with relatedness density on the y-axis. RCA is an indicator that highlights the countries that exhibits a competitive edge in Aerospace & Defense, while relatedness density measures how connected Aerospace & Defense is to others within the broader economic structure.
Higher RCA values suggest that a country has a strong competitive position internationally in Aerospace & Defense, while higher relatedness density indicates that Aerospace & Defense is deeply integrated into the economy, with potential for further growth and diversification. This comparison allows us to identify countries with both high competitiveness and strong growth potential based on their embeddedness in the economic network.