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REUTERS TOP 100
The World’s Most InnovativeUniversities 2019
By David M. Ewalt
PUBLISHED Oct. 23, 2019
or the ��h year running, Stanford University tops Reuters’ ranking of the World’s Most InnovativeUniversities, a list that identi�es and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advancescience, 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 innovationsthat are cited by other researchers in academia and private industry. That sort of in�uence is a key measureof the ranking of the world’s most innovative universities, which was compiled in partnership with ClarivateAnalytics, and is based on proprietary data and analysis including patent �lings and research papercitations.
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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 threeuniversities on the list — No. 2 is MIT and No. 3, Harvard— have all held their spots for �ve straight years, aslong as Reuters has produced the ranking. In fact, eight of last year’s 10 highest-ranked universitiesremained in the top 10, and 18 of the top 20. The results show that while inventors are o�en portrayed asiconoclasts, innovation relies on strong institutions. It’s not enough to come up with a new idea: Successdepends 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 institutionthat maintains one of the largest independent research and development organizations on the planet. Thehighest-ranked university in Asia is Pohang University of Science & Technology, or POSTECH (#12), aninstitution founded in 1986 by the South Korean steel company POSCO and noted for its unique ties toindustry.
NUMBER OF UNIVERSITIES IN REUTERS TOP 100 BY COUNTRY
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Overall, the United States continues to dominate the list, with 46 universities in the top 100, the same as theyear 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; theNetherlands 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 �vefrom last year), Asia has 18 (down �ve), and the Middle East has 2. There are no universities in the top 100located in Africa, South America or Oceania.
In terms of national performance, France shows the biggest improvement this year, with all its universitiesmaking 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 smallerinstitutions, and the efforts seem to have paid off. In contrast, Japanese universities continue to lose groundon the global ranking: Three Japanese universities dropped off the list in 2019, and the institutions thatremained fell an average of 16 places. While Japan has traditionally been a research powerhouse in the AsiaPaci�c region, its universities rely heavily on government spending, and decades of de�ation and economicstagnation 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’ regionalinnovation lists, Asia’s Most Innovative Universities and Europe’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 theyrank on the global list. An institution’s relative ranking may change from list to list, since each ranking isdependent on summarizing 10 indicators and comparing that with others in a speci�c population; when thatpopulation changes, individual rankings might change as well. Furthermore, the global list is restricted toinstitutions 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 morein-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 onwhether its researchers are doing important work. The ranking measures innovation on an institutionallevel, but absence from the list doesn’t indicate an institution is failing to innovate; a university might ranklow 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 thisranking are among the best in the world. All of these universities produce original research, create usefultechnology and stimulate the global economy.
Editing by Arlyn Gajilan and Alessandra Ra�erty
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1 Stanford UniversityUSA
Total patents filed: 728
Success rate: 40.8%
Commercial impact score: 75.2
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Stanford University
1 Stanford UniversityUSA
Total patents filed: 728
Success rate: 40.8%
Commercial impact score: 75.2
See full details
Stanford University
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www.stanford.edu 17,381 students 6,643 sta�
1 Stanford UniversityUSA
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Stanford University takes �rst place on Reuters' list of the World's Most Innovative Universities for the ��h consecutive year. Thuniversity has locked down the top spot by consistently producing new patents and papers that in�uence researchers around tglobe.
Recent research highlights include the development of a new generation of batteries that can harness energy from the minglinsaltwater and freshwater. The technology, known as “blue energy,” relies on �ows of fresh and salt water alternately stripping adepositing 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 conveexisting 92,000-square-foot facility to a life sciences incubator dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in the development of netherapies and cures for critical diseases. The project is intended to eventually anchor an 85-acre “life science district” within thStanford Research Park.
Located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Stanford University has played a key role in the development of our networkeworld. In the early 1970s, Stanford professor Vint Cerf co-designed the TCP/IP protocols that became the basic communicationstandard for the Internet, and in 1991, physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center deployed the �rst world wide webserver 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 generaso much revenue that if they formed an independent nation, it would rank among the 10 largest economies in the world. StanfoUniversity was founded in 1891 by California senator and railway magnate Leland Stanford in honor of his deceased son, with tpromise that "the children of California shall be our children."
TOTAL PATENTS FILED: 728Number 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: 75.2Indicator of how o�en basic research originating at an institution has influenced commercial R&D activity, as measured by academic papers cited in patent filiHigher scores are better.
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2 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUSA
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3 Harvard UniversityUSA
4 University of PennsylvaniaUSA
5 University of WashingtonUSA
6 University of North Carolina Chapel HillUSA
7 KU LeuvenBELGIUM
8 University of Southern CaliforniaUSA
9 Cornell UniversityUSA
10 Imperial College LondonUNITED KINGDOM
11 University of Texas SystemUSA
12 Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)SOUTH KOREA
13 University of California SystemUSA
14 University of Erlangen NurembergGERMANY
15 Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA
16 California Institute of TechnologyUSA
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17 EPFL - Swiss Federal lnstitute of Technology LausanneSWITZERLAND
18 University of CambridgeUNITED KINGDOM
19 Vanderbilt UniversityUSA
20 Yale UniversityUSA
21 University of Michigan SystemUSA
22 University of Minnesota SystemUSA
23 Duke UniversityUSA
24 Northwestern UniversityUSA
25 University of Illinois SystemUSA
26 University of TokyoJAPAN
27 University of TorontoCANADA
28 Columbia UniversityUSA
29 Seoul National UniversitySOUTH KOREA
30 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUSA
31 University College London
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31 UNITED KINGDOM
32 University of OxfordUNITED KINGDOM
33 University of Colorado SystemUSA
34 Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)SOUTH KOREA
35 Osaka UniversityJAPAN
36 University of Wisconsin SystemUSA
37 Baylor College of MedicineUSA
38 University of UtahUSA
39 University of ChicagoUSA
40 ETH ZurichSWITZERLAND
41 Tsinghua UniversityCHINA
42 Oregon Health & Science UniversityUSA
43 Kyoto UniversityJAPAN
44 University of MontpellierFRANCE
45 Sungkyunkwan UniversitySOUTH KOREA
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46 Technical University of MunichGERMANY
47 Case Western Reserve UniversityUSA
48 Technical University of DenmarkDENMARK
49 University of ManchesterUNITED KINGDOM
50 Emory UniversityUSA
51 University of ZurichSWITZERLAND
52 University of PittsburghUSA
53 University of British ColumbiaCANADA
54 Ohio State UniversityUSA
55 Peking UniversityCHINA
56 Sorbonne UniversityFRANCE
57 Kyushu UniversityJAPAN
58 National University of SingaporeSINGAPORE
59 Ruprecht Karl University HeidelbergGERMANY
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60 Delft University of TechnologyNETHERLANDS
61 Tohoku UniversityJAPAN
62 Purdue University SystemUSA
63 University of Massachusetts SystemUSA
64 University of Paris SudFRANCE
65 Princeton UniversityUSA
66 University of Paris DescartesFRANCE
67 Nanyang Technological UniversitySINGAPORE
68 Tufts UniversityUSA
69 State University of New York SystemUSA
70 Johannes Gutenberg University of MainzGERMANY
71 Leiden UniversityNETHERLANDS
72 Hanyang UniversitySOUTH KOREA
73 Rutgers UniversityUSA
74 Tokyo Institute of Technology
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74 Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJAPAN
75 University of MunichGERMANY
76 Yonsei UniversitySOUTH KOREA
77 University of Claude BernardFRANCE
78 Indiana University SystemUSA
79 Dresden University of TechnologyGERMANY
80 University of BordeauxFRANCE
81 University of IowaUSA
82 University of FreiburgGERMANY
83 Boston UniversityUSA
84 University System of MarylandUSA
85 Wake Forest UniversityUSA
86 Zhejiang UniversityCHINA
87 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUSA
88 Hebrew University of JerusalemISRAEL
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88 ISRAEL
89 RWTH Aachen UniversityGERMANY
90 University of ConnecticutUSA
91 Grenoble Alpes UniversityFRANCE
92 University of FloridaUSA
93 Utrecht UniversityNETHERLANDS
94 Technical University of BerlinGERMANY
95 Tel Aviv UniversityISRAEL
96 University of Aix-MarseilleFRANCE
97 University of VirginiaUSA
98 Ghent UniversityBELGIUM
99 Kings College LondonUNITED KINGDOM
100 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityCHINA
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