It is true that the number of patents registered in Russia is fairly high (nearly 45 000 in 2013); however, a more reliable indicator of the commercial potential of Russian R&D is the number of international patents registered by Russian patentees — given the much higher cost of registering such patents, only those with commercial promise are likely to be registered outside the country. On this score, Russia does very badly, with a mere 63 triadic patents in 2009 (i.e. registered in the US, EU and Japan), compared to 279 for Denmark, or 13 715 for the United States.
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