Abstract:Clarifying the current research status and existing problems about the measurement of patent-intensive industries can lay a foundation for the establishment and improvement of China's patent-intensive industries research system. Through investigating the research literatures at home and abroad, this paper makes a comprehensive and systematic review from four aspects: the measure theory, the measure indictors, the selection of patent data and the association between patents and industries. Results show that the measurement of patent-intensive industries takes the theory of "product production function" as the mainstream method, and the measure index system is gradually improved from single indicator to multiple indicators. However, there is no final conclusion on the selection of patent data and the data source is very limited. In the future, in-depth and detailed work can be carried out from the aspects of patent quality, measurement of small and medium classes and firm level.