The World’s Most Innovative Universities 2019

EDITION: UNITED STATES Business Markets World Politics Tech Breakingviews Wealth Life REUTERS TOP 100 The World’s Most Innovative Universities 2019 By David M Ewalt PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2019 F or the h year running, Stanford University tops Reuters’ ranking of the World’s Most Innovative Universities, a list that identi es and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries Stanford holds onto its top spot year a er year because it produces a steady stream of innovations that are cited by other researchers in academia and private industry That sort of in uence is a key measure of the ranking of the world’s most innovative universities, which was compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, and is based on proprietary data and analysis including patent lings and research paper citations Business Markets World Politics Tech Breakingviews Wealth Life The Hoover Tower rises above Stanford University Photo by Reuters/Noah Berger Stanford isn’t the only major university holding fast to its spot on the ranking In fact, the top three universities on the list — No is MIT and No 3, Harvard— have all held their spots for ve straight years, as long as Reuters has produced the ranking In fact, eight of last year’s 10 highest-ranked universities remained in the top 10, and 18 of the top 20 The results show that while inventors are o en portrayed as iconoclasts, innovation relies on strong institutions It’s not enough to come up with a new idea: Success depends on getting help to patent, publish, produce and market The highest-ranked university outside the U.S., Belgium’s KU Leuven (#7), is a nearly 600-year-old institution that maintains one of the largest independent research and development organizations on the planet The highest-ranked university in Asia is Pohang University of Science & Technology, or POSTECH (#12), an institution founded in 1986 by the South Korean steel company POSCO and noted for its unique ties to industry NUMBER OF UNIVERSITIES IN REUTERS TOP 100 BY COUNTRY United States Germany France UK South Korea Japan China Switzerland Netherlands Belgium Canada Singapore Israel Denmark  0  10  20  30  40 50 Source: Clarivate Analytics Overall, the United States continues to dominate the list, with 46 universities in the top 100, the same as the year prior Germany is the second best performing country with nine universities France climbs to third, with eight universities on the list; Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom each have 6; China has 4; the Netherlands and Switzerland have 3; Belgium, Canada, Israel and Singapore have 2, and Denmark has Considered on a regional basis, North America has 48 universities in the top 100, Europe has 32 (up ve from last year), Asia has 18 (down ve), and the Middle East has There are no universities in the top 100 located in Africa, South America or Oceania In terms of national performance, France shows the biggest improvement this year, with all its universities making big gains, including new entrants Aix-Marseille University (#96) and Sorbonne University (#56) France has extensively restructured its higher education system over the past few years, combining smaller institutions, and the efforts seem to have paid off In contrast, Japanese universities continue to lose ground on the global ranking: Three Japanese universities dropped off the list in 2019, and the institutions that remained fell an average of 16 places While Japan has traditionally been a research powerhouse in the Asia Paci c region, its universities rely heavily on government spending, and decades of de ation and economic stagnation have resulted in less money for research and fewer innovations Careful observers might note a few differences between how non-U.S institutions rank on Reuters’ regional innovation lists, Asia’s Most Innovative Universities and Europe’s Most Innovative Universities, and how they innovation lists, Asia s Most Innovative Universities and Europe s Most Innovative Universities, and how they Businesslist.Markets World relative Politics ranking Tech Breakingviews Wealth rank on the global An institution’s may change from list toLife list, since each ranking is dependent on summarizing 10 indicators and comparing that with others in a speci c population; when that population changes, individual rankings might change as well Furthermore, the global list is restricted to institutions that led 70 or more patents with the World Intellectual Property Organization during the veyear period examined by Thomson Reuters The cutoff for regional lists is just 50 patents, allowing a more in-depth view of the most active institutions within a limited geographic area The relative ranking of any university — or whether it appears on the list at all — is not the nal word on whether its researchers are doing important work The ranking measures innovation on an institutional level, but absence from the list doesn’t indicate an institution is failing to innovate; a university might rank low for overall innovation, but still operate one of the world’s best high energy physics labs, for instance And it’s important to note that whether they’re in the top ve or bottom ve, all 100 universities in this ranking are among the best in the world All of these universities produce original research, create useful technology and stimulate the global economy Editing by Arlyn Gajilan and Alessandra Ra erty For a detailed methodology, see here For reprints, e-prints, logo and accolade licensing, permissions and plaques and other products, please visit PARS International Corp COMPARE TWO INSTITUTIONS  Stanford University Stanford University USA Stanford University USA Total patents filed: 728 Total patents filed: 728 Success rate: 40.8% Success rate: 40.8% Commercial impact score: 75.2 Commercial impact score: 75.2 See full details  See full details  TAKE A LOOK AT THE FULL RANKING BELOW  Stanford University Stanford University USA  www.stanford.edu        17,381 students        6,643 sta Business Markets World Politics Tech Breakingviews Wealth Life Photo by Reuters/Beck Diefe Stanford University takes rst place on Reuters' list of the World's Most Innovative Universities for the h consecutive year Th university has locked down the top spot by consistently producing new patents and papers that in uence researchers around t globe Recent research highlights include the development of a new generation of batteries that can harness energy from the minglin saltwater and freshwater The technology, known as “blue energy,” relies on ows of fresh and salt water alternately stripping a depositing sodium and chloride ions from electrodes, and could be particularly useful in coastal wastewater treatment plants, making them entirely energy-independent Elsewhere at the university, in September 2019 Stanford announced plans to conve existing 92,000-square-foot facility to a life sciences incubator dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in the development of ne therapies and cures for critical diseases The project is intended to eventually anchor an 85-acre “life science district” within th Stanford Research Park Located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Stanford University has played a key role in the development of our networke world In the early 1970s, Stanford professor Vint Cerf co-designed the TCP/IP protocols that became the basic communication standard for the Internet, and in 1991, physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center deployed the rst world wide web server outside of Europe The university's faculty and alumni have founded major tech companies including Google, HewlettPackard and Cisco Systems A 2012 study by the university estimated that companies formed by Stanford entrepreneurs genera so much revenue that if they formed an independent nation, it would rank among the 10 largest economies in the world Stanfo University was founded in 1891 by California senator and railway magnate Leland Stanford in honor of his deceased son, with t promise that "the children of California shall be our children." TOTAL PATENTS FILED: 728 Number of basic patents (patent families) filed by the institution between 2012 and 2017 Pharmaceuticals & biotech Agriculture, forestry & food Medical devices & healthcare  25 Chemicals  50 Computer so ware & internet Others  75 100%  75 100% SUCCESS RATE: 40.8% Ratio of patents filed by the institution between 2012 and 2017 that were subsequently granted by patent o ices  25  50 COMMERCIAL IMPACT SCORE: 75.2 Indicator of how o en basic research originating at an institution has influenced commercial R&D activity, as measured by academic papers cited in patent fili Higher scores are better 75.2 AVG: 40.5 100 Data provided by Clarivate Analytics For a detailed methodology, see here For reprints, e-prints, logo and accolade licensing, permissions and plaques and other products please visit PARS International Corp Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 200 Harvard University University of Pennsylvania University of Washington University of North Carolina Chapel Hill KU Leuven University of Southern California Cornell University Business Markets World Politics Tech Breakingviews Wealth USA USA USA USA BELGIUM USA USA 10 Imperial College London 11 University of Texas System 12 Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) 13 University of California System 14 University of Erlangen Nuremberg 15 Johns Hopkins University 16 California Institute of Technology UNITED KINGDOM USA SOUTH KOREA USA GERMANY USA USA Life 17 EPFL - Swiss Federal of Technology Lausanne Business Markets lnstitute World Politics Tech Breakingviews Wealth 18 University of Cambridge 19 Vanderbilt University 20 Yale University 21 University of Michigan System 22 University of Minnesota System 23 Duke University 24 Northwestern University 25 University of Illinois System 26 University of Tokyo 27 University of Toronto 28 Columbia University 29 Seoul National University 30 Georgia Institute of Technology 31 University College London SWITZERLAND UNITED KINGDOM USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JAPAN CANADA USA SOUTH KOREA USA Life 31 UNITED KINGDOM Business Markets World Politics Tech Breakingviews Wealth Life 32 University of Oxford 33 University of Colorado System 34 Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) 35 Osaka University 36 University of Wisconsin System 37 Baylor College of Medicine 38 University of Utah 39 University of Chicago 40 ETH Zurich 41 Tsinghua University 42 Oregon Health & Science University 43 Kyoto University 44 University of Montpellier 45 Sungkyunkwan University UNITED KINGDOM USA SOUTH KOREA JAPAN USA USA USA USA SWITZERLAND CHINA USA JAPAN FRANCE SOUTH KOREA Business Markets World Politics Tech 46 Technical University of Munich 47 Case Western Reserve University 48 Technical University of Denmark 49 University of Manchester 50 Emory University 51 University of Zurich 52 University of Pittsburgh 53 University of British Columbia 54 Ohio State University 55 Peking University 56 Sorbonne University 57 Kyushu University 58 National University of Singapore 59 Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg GERMANY USA DENMARK UNITED KINGDOM USA SWITZERLAND USA CANADA USA CHINA FRANCE JAPAN SINGAPORE GERMANY Breakingviews Wealth Life 60 Delft University of Technology 61 Tohoku University 62 Purdue University System 63 University of Massachusetts System 64 University of Paris Sud 65 Princeton University 66 University of Paris Descartes 67 Nanyang Technological University 68 Tufts University 69 State University of New York System 70 Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 71 Leiden University 72 Hanyang University 73 Rutgers University 74 Tokyo Institute of Technology Business Markets World Politics Tech Breakingviews NETHERLANDS JAPAN USA USA FRANCE USA FRANCE SINGAPORE USA USA GERMANY NETHERLANDS SOUTH KOREA USA Wealth Life 74 Tokyo Institute of Technology 75 University of Munich 76 Yonsei University 77 University of Claude Bernard 78 Indiana University System 79 Dresden University of Technology 80 University of Bordeaux 81 University of Iowa 82 University of Freiburg 83 Boston University 84 University System of Maryland 85 Wake Forest University 86 Zhejiang University 87 Carnegie Mellon University 88 Hebrew University of Jerusalem JAPAN Business Markets World Politics GERMANY SOUTH KOREA FRANCE USA GERMANY FRANCE USA GERMANY USA USA USA CHINA USA ISRAEL Tech Breakingviews Wealth Life 88 ISRAEL Business Markets World Politics 89 RWTH Aachen University 90 University of Connecticut 91 Grenoble Alpes University 92 University of Florida 93 Utrecht University 94 Technical University of Berlin 95 Tel Aviv University 96 University of Aix-Marseille 97 University of Virginia 98 Ghent University 99 Kings College London Tech Breakingviews Wealth Life GERMANY USA FRANCE USA NETHERLANDS GERMANY ISRAEL FRANCE USA BELGIUM UNITED KINGDOM 100 Shanghai Jiao Tong University CHINA Data provided by Clarivate Analytics For a detailed methodology, see here For reprints, e-prints, logo and accolade licensing, permissions and plaques and other products please visit PARS International Corp SPONSORED ... 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