The World’s Most Innovative Universities 2019

23, 2019 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

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REUTERS TOP 100

The World’s Most Innovative

Universities 2019

By David M Ewalt

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2019

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

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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 2 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

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 1 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 2 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 UniversitiesandEurope’s Most Innovative Universities, and how they

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innovation lists, Asias Most Innovative Universities and Europe s Most Innovative Universities, and how they rank on the global list An institution’s relative ranking may change from list to 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 ve-year 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

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Total patents filed: 728

Success rate: 40.8%

Commercial impact score: 75.2

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Stanford University

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Total patents filed: 728 Success rate: 40.8%

Commercial impact score: 75.2

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Stanford University

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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, Hewlett-Packard 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

SUCCESS RATE: 40.8%

Ratio of patents filed by the institution between 2012 and 2017 that were subsequently granted by patent o ices

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.

Data provided by Clarivate Analytics For a detailed methodology, see here

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Others Computer so ware & internet

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AVG: 40.5

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3 Harvard University

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17 EPFL - Swiss Federal lnstitute of Technology Lausanne

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46 Technical University of Munich

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60 Delft University of Technology

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74 Tokyo Institute of Technology

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Data provided by Clarivate Analytics For a detailed methodology, see here

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