The author of the study, Knut Blind of Fraunhofer, is a hardent proponent of software patents. If you read the study, you will find those nonsense things relate

The author of the study, Knut Blind of Fraunhofer, is a hardent proponent of software patents. If you read the study, you will find those nonsense things related to patents: "Table 5.16: Impact of OSS Commits on patents on computer-implemented inventions (FE)" "the number of national contributors to OSS has a positive influence on the development of patents on CII as an innovation indicator of the IT sector."