Thomson Reuters Releases Inaugural “World’s Most Innovative Universities” Rankings

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Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University top the inaugural Reuters Top 100 ranking of the world’s most innovative universities.
The Reuters Top 100 ranking aims to identify which institutions contribute the most to science and technology, and have the greatest impact on the global economy. The ranking uses proprietary data and analysis tools from the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters to examine a series of patent and research-related metrics, and get to the essence of what it means to be truly innovative.
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Reuters set out to find and rank the world’s top 100 innovative universities empirically, building a methodology that employs 10 different metrics. The criteria focused on academic papers, which indicate basic research performed at a university, and patent filings, which point to an institution’s interest in protecting and commercializing its discoveries. Compiled by the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the list uses proprietary data and analysis tools.

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Top 25 From Reuters Top 100: The World’s Most Innovative Universities
1          Stanford University
2          Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
3          Harvard University
4          University of Washington
5          University of Michigan System
6          Northwestern University
7          University of Texas System
8          University of Wisconsin System
9          University of Pennsylvania
10         Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
11         Imperial College London
12         Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)
13         University of California System
14         University of Southern California
15         University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
16         KU Leuven
17         Duke University
18         Osaka University
19         Johns Hopkins University
20         California Institute of Technology
21         University of Illinois System
22         Kyoto University
23         Georgia Institute of Technology
24         University of Tokyo
25         University of Cambridge
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