The World's Most Innovative Universities by
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is an annual empirical ranking that identifies educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent technologies and power new markets.
Ranking
Empirical metrics focus on how often a university's patent applications are granted, how many patents are filed with global patent offices and local authorities, and how often a university's patents were cited by others.
The process identifies the 600 academic and government organizations with the greatest number of scholarly journal as indexed in the Web of Science. This list is then cross referenced against the patents and patent equivalents each university filed in the Derwent World Patents Index and the Derwent Innovations Index.
Scope
The ranking has a
Europe
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an edition featuring the top 100 institutions across that region, an
Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific (APAC) is the part of the world near the western Pacific Ocean. The Asia-Pacific region varies in area depending on context, but it generally includes East Asia, Russian Far East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and Pacific Isla ...
edition featuring the top 75 institutions and an edition featuring the top 25 most innovative
governmental
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, Executive (government), e ...
institutions in the world.
According to the World Economic Forum, universities on this list produce original research, create useful technology, and stimulate the global economy.
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