The World's Most Innovative Universities ranking is based on WIPO, World Intellectual Property Office. It does not have any power in granting patents but its filing is not even recognised by all the other patent offices. You need to refile in the nations that you want your patent to be protected. There is effectively no discount granted for filing at WIPO. The cheapest and fastest way of protecting patents are still by filing at individual patent offices.
So what is the point of filing at WIPO? Nothing really except to satisfy this ranking requirement. It may have another function that is useful to universities. Its filing system is better than other national patent offices, especially MYIPO and UKIPO. It is easier to search for patents that are filed at WIPO which means the chance of citations are much better, increasing the exposure of patent publications that are attributed to the universities.
The exposure provided to the universities will ultimately increase the academic ranking of universities. It does not increase the commercial monetary output of universities. If you publish in Europe, EPO's Espacenet provides as good exposure to your patents as WIPO also, but much cheaper, because you do not need to file twice. Filing cost at WIPO can be reduced if WIPO does not reqire the useless patent search before filing. The result of the patent search will be ignored any way by patent offices. Even within the same patent office because different patent examiners will be assigned to examine national patents.
You may expect that patent examiners are professionals so have consisent standards but this is far from the truth. The most like is that they do not even know what they are doing or the regulations governing their examination procedure. It occurred in all patent offices in MYIPO, UKIPO, USPTO.
So this ranking is just a way for Reuters and WIPO to make money by using their facilities which have very little value. For developing nations, they can get ignore these rankings. For parents with limited funds, just look at the type of outputs that our targeted universiteis are capable of. If they produce only journals, they are mostly academic. If they have a high percentage of patents, it means that they emphasise more on innovation, not necessarily captured by this Reuters ranking.
For lecturers who are interested in patenting, it is actually very easy. Much easier than publishing in journals. That is why a lot of academics are skeptical of the value of patents in measuring the ability of lecturers. The same is also true of journals. The quality of patents can be determined by the techniques shown by this Reuters indexing methodology. All these qualities start with quantity first. We must learn to produce patents first before we learn how to produce quality patents. The same is actually true of journals but patents are far more important to poorer nations than journal publications.
Patents are all designs that target a practical solution that can make money. If you do not satisfy that criteria, your filing will be rejected at the intial search which is compulsary prior to the substantive search. It may be just formatting examination but if you just file data without any design, you are sure to be rejected as not complying with the format of patent filing which requires diagrams of designs or algorithms.
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October 11, 2018 / 12:16 PM / 4 months ago
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(Reuters) - For the fourth year running, Stanford University tops Reuters’ ranking of the World’s Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries.
1. Stanford University. The Hoover Tower rises above Stanford University in Palo Alto, California REUTERS/Noah Berger
Contributing to its solid foothold at No. 1 is Stanford’s steady stream of patents and research, which are frequently cited by other academics around the world. Those citations play a key role in 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 of numerous indicators including patent filings and research paper citations.
Recent Stanford research highlights include several developments in the field of artificial intelligence, including the next generation of camera systems to guide self-driving cars and simulators that can predict potential drug interactions before new pharmaceuticals are ever tested on humans.
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While a few UK and Asian schools have ascended, American universities continue to dominate the top of Reuters’ ranking. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, places second on the list, and Harvard University comes in third, making 2018 the fourth consecutive year that those universities have held those exact spots. The University of Pennsylvania came in fourth place for the second consecutive year, and the University of Washington is up two spots to round out the top five. The University of Texas System placed sixth. Belgium’s KU Leuven, ranked No. 7, is the highest ranked university outside the U.S., followed by Imperial College London (No. 8), the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (No. 9) and Vanderbilt University (No. 10). Overall, eight of last year’s 10 highest-ranked universities remained in the top 10.
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Other universities on Reuters’ ranking have broken out of the pack because of new, groundbreaking research. The biggest mover on this year’s list is the University of Manchester, which surged 27 places from No. 80 to No. 53, largely because of research into the supermaterial graphene. Graphene is one of the strongest materials on Earth, yet also extremely light, flexible and highly conductive; it could prove a hugely important ingredient for future innovations in electronics, energy, transportation and other industries. Physicists theorized the existence of graphene in the 1940s, but it was first produced in 2004 by two University of Manchester scientists. Ever since then the university has dominated the world’s research into the cutting-edge material. Manchester is home to the UK’s National Graphene Institute, and patents related to graphene account for about a quarter of all filings from the university over the five-year period examined for this list.
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Geopolitical trends are also a factor in this year’s rankings. In Europe, uncertainty over the United Kingdom’s “Brexit” from the European Union may already be pushing research out of the country: Germany added two universities to the Global Top 100 in 2018, and Reuters’ regional ranking of Europe’s Most Innovative Universities showed German universities gaining more than any other country. In Asia, Chinese universities are increasing their presence among the top 100 thanks to a new government push for innovation, and a focus on filing more patent applications.
Overall, the United States continues to dominate the list, with 46 universities in the top 100; Germany and Japan are tied for second best performing country, with nine universities each. South Korea has eight universities on the list; China, France and the United Kingdom each have 5; Switzerland has 3; Belgium, Canada, Israel and the Netherlands have 2, and Denmark and Singapore each have 1. Considered on a regional basis, North America has 48 universities in the top 100, Europe has 27, Asia has 23, and the Middle East has 2. There are no universities in the top 100 located in Africa, South America or Oceania.
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 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 specific population; when that population changes, individual rankings might change as well. Furthermore, the global list is restricted to institutions that filed 70 or more patents with the World Intellectual Property Organization during the five-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.
Of course, the relative ranking of any university – or whether it appears on the list at all – does not provide a complete picture of whether its researchers are doing important, innovative work. Since the ranking measures innovation on an institutional level, it may overlook particularly innovative departments or programs: a university might rank low for overall innovation but still operate one of the world’s best medical schools, for instance. And it’s important to remember that whether a university ranks at the top or the bottom of the list, it’s still within the top 100 on the planet. All of these universities produce original research, create useful technology and stimulate the global economy.
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To create our ranking of the world’s most innovative universities, Reuters News relied on data compiled by Clarivate Analytics and several of its research platforms: InCites, Web of Science, Derwent Innovations Index, Derwent World Patents Index and Patents Citation Index. The process began by identifying approximately 600 academic and government organizations that published the greatest number of articles in scholarly journals from 2011 to 2016, as indexed in the Clarivate Web of Science Core Collection database. The list was cross-referenced against the number of patents filed by each organization during the same time period in the Derwent World Patents Index and the Derwent Innovations Index. Patent equivalents, citing patents and citing articles were included up to March 2018. The timeframe allows for the articles and patent activity to receive citations, thereby contributing to that portion of the methodology.
Next, the list was reduced to just those institutions that filed 70 or more world (WIPO) patents, the bulk of which were universities. The restriction to ranking only those institutions with 70 or more world patents is different for this global ranking than for our regional rankings. For the 2018 surveys of Europe’s Most Innovative Universities and Asia’s Most Innovative Universities, the threshold was 50 world patents, because it allowed a more in-depth view of the most active institutions relative to others in their geographic area. (It should also be noted that an institution’s ranking relative to others may be different in the global and the regional rankings since the ranking is dependent on summarizing the ranks of 10 indicators among others in the population, resulting in a composite score specifically geared to those in the comparison group.)
Each candidate university was then evaluated using various indicators including how often a university’s patent applications were granted, how many patents were filed with global patent offices and local authorities and how often the university's patents were cited by others. Universities were also evaluated in terms of how often their research papers were cited by patents and the percentage of articles that featured a co-author from industry.
Since some university systems, such as the University of California, centralize their patent administration, it's not possible to identify which of the various campuses was responsible for the initial research, so in these cases the entire system was ranked, as opposed to an individual campus. Further complicating matters is the fact that not all universities publicly list their names on their patents or use complex name variants. For example, patents by the University of Oxford are filed under the name ISIS Innovations Ltd. In such instances, the name of the entity administrating patents for a university was identified and the patents then associated with the university by the Clarivate analysts. There are several related changes to the global ranking methodology this year. In the past, Clarivate ranked the entire University of North Carolina together, instead of breaking out individual members, but in 2018 each member institution was ranked independently. Following this change, only one UNC institution placed in the top 100: The flagship University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The following are the criteria that contributed to each university’s composite score, which in turn determined the ranking of the universities according to innovative capacity and achievement.
Patent Volume
Source: Derwent World Patents Index, Derwent Innovations Index
The number of basic patents (patent families) filed by the organization. This is an indication of research output that has a potential for commercial value. The number is limited only to those patents that are registered with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Patent Success
Source: Derwent World Patents Index, Derwent Innovations Index
The ratio of patent applications to grants over the assessed timeframe. This indicates the university’s success in filing applications that are then accepted.
Global Patents
Source: Derwent World Patents Index, Derwent Innovations Index
The percentage of patents for which coverage was sought with the U.S., European and Japanese patent offices. Filing an international patent is an expensive and laborious process and filing in multiple countries or regions is an indication that the invention is considered to be nontrivial and has commercial value.
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Patent Citations
Source: Patents Citation Index
The total number of times a patent has been cited by other patents. As part of the patent inspection process, the patent office examiner will cite significant prior art. The number of times a patent has been cited is an indication that it has an impact on other commercial R&D.
Patent Citation Impact
Source: Patents Citation Index
This is an indication of how much impact a patent has had. Because it is a ratio (or average), it is not dependent on the size of the organization. Note that the indicator Percent of Patents Cited (listed below) is closely related to this indicator, therefore these two indicators are given half the weighting of all others.
Percent of Patents Cited
Source: Patents Citation Index
This indicator is the proportion of patents that have been cited by other patents one or more times. As mentioned, it is closely tied to the Patent Citation Impact indicator.
Patent to Article Citation Impact
Source: Patents Citation Index, Derwent World Patents Index, Web of Science Core Collection
Similar to Patent Citation Impact, this indicator measures the average number of times a journal article has been cited by patents. This unique indicator demonstrates that basic research conducted in an academic setting (as recorded in scholarly articles) has had influence and impact in the realm of commercial research & development (as measured by patents).
Industry Article Citation Impact
Source: Web of Science Core Collection
Article-to-article citations are an established indicator of influence and research impact. By limiting the citing articles only to those from industry, this indicator reveals the influence and impact that basic research conducted in an academic setting has had on commercial research.
Percent of Industry Collaborative Articles
Source: Web of Science Core Collection
The percentage of all articles of a university that contain one or more co-authors from a commercial entity. This indicator shows the percentage of research activity that is conducted in collaboration with industry, suggesting potential future economic impact of the research project jointly undertaken.
Total Web of Science Core Collection Papers
Source: Web of Science Core Collection
The total number of journal articles published by the organization. This is a size-dependent measure of the research output of the university.
Final Score
The indicators were used to rank each of the universities and the composite score was achieved by summing the ranks for each criterion for each university. Each indicator was weighted equally with the exception of Patent Citation Impact and Percent of Patents Cited, which received 50 percent weighting each since they are closely related in measuring the same phenomenon.
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(Reuters) - Every scientist hopes for a "Eureka" moment — the jolt of sudden insight when a discovery becomes clear. But great advances always follow regular progress, and while individual researchers might strive for disruption, institutions are most successful when they're consistent and steady. That’s one conclusion of Reuters’ annual ranking of Asia Pacific’s Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Korea released on August 29, 2016. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and technology (KAIST)/Handout via Reuters
The most innovative university in the region, for the third consecutive year, is South Korea’s KAIST. Formerly known as the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, it is the nation’s oldest research-oriented science and engineering university, with campuses in Daejeon, Seoul and Busan. Established in 1971 by the Korean government, KAIST was modeled after engineering schools in the United States, and offers most of its courses in English.
Recent KAIST research highlights include the development of a highly durable platinum-based fuel cell catalyst that removes particulate matter from the air while it is in operation, an innovation that could lead to more efficient electric vehicles that reduce pollution when driven. KAIST once again earned its first-place rank among the APAC’s most innovative universities by producing a high volume of influential inventions. Its researchers submit more patents than any other university on the list, and those patents are frequently cited by outside researchers in their own patents and papers. Those are key criteria in Reuters ranking of Asia Pacific’s Most Innovative Universities, which was compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, and is based on proprietary data and analysis of indicators including patent filings and research paper citations.
Japan’s University of Tokyo takes the runner-up spot, moving up one rank from 2017. Korea’s POSTECH takes third, also moving up one, and Seoul National University comes in fourth after dropping two. Tsinghua University (#5) is the highest-ranked university in China, up one from last year. Osaka University (#6), Kyoto University (#7), Sungkyunkwan University (#8), Tohoku University (#9) and the National University of Singapore (#10) round out the top 10.
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Only three new institutions appear on the list this year, all of them based in China: the China University of Mining & Technology (#56), Shandong University (#67), and Xiamen University (#74). The region exhibits a remarkable consistency, unlike Europe and North America: In contrast, Reuters’ 2018 ranking of Europe's Most Innovative Universities featured 15 new entries.
Overall, the same countries that dominate Asian business and politics dominate the ranking of APAC’s Most Innovative Universities. Chinese universities account for 27 of the 75 institutions on the list, more than any other country. South Korea comes in second with 20 institutions, and Japan is third with 19. Australia has 5, Singapore has 2, and India and New Zealand each have 1.
In addition to adding the list’s only new universities, China saw its domination of the list increase slightly, from 25 institutions in 2017 to 27 in 2018. They’ve done this by increasing their patent input dramatically. In 2016 ranked Chinese institutions filed an average of 128 patents during the list’s five year window; in 2018, they filed 160. That’s a 25% increase in just three years. Still, the nation continues to be held back by how rarely it files patents abroad. On average, Chinese universities on the list filed just 6.7% of all their patents with global authorities in the U.S., Europe and Japan, compared to 34.9% for Japanese universities and 20% for all non-Chinese universities in the ranking. Experts say Chinese academic and commercial institution are filing more patent applications than they used to. “Twenty years ago China was viewed as a pirate nation when it comes to IP, but that is changing,” says Mark A. Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School and director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology. “The Chinese government has decided to push innovation, perhaps for economic reasons and perhaps for strategic ones.... [and] patenting follows from that.”
Some nations underperform on the ranking because of the way they organize their university systems. Despite boasting the world’s second-largest population (more than 1.28 billion) and one of its largest economies, only one Indian university appears in the top 75, the Indian Institutes of Technology (#71). IIT is a network of 23 universities which centralizes its patent administration, so it's not always possible to identify which constituent university was responsible for what research. As a result, Reuters ranked the entire system as opposed to individual universities. World-class campuses like IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay may have ranked much higher on the list if they weren’t grouped in with smaller and newer institutes like IIT Tirupati and IIT Palakkad.
To compile the 2018 ranking of the Asia Pacific region’s most innovative universities, Clarivate Analytics (formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters) began by identifying more than 600 global organizations that published the most articles in academic journals, including educational institutions, nonprofit charities and government-funded institutions. That list was reduced to institutions that filed at least 50 patents with the World Intellectual Property Organization in the period between 2011 and 2016. Then they evaluated each candidate on 10 different metrics, focusing on academic papers (which indicate basic research) and patent filings (which point to an institution’s ability to apply research and commercialize its discoveries). Finally, they trimmed the list so that it only included universities in East Asia, South Asia and Oceania, and then ranked them based on their performance.
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Of course, the relative ranking of any university does not provide a complete picture of the scope of its researchers’ work. Since the ranking measures innovation on an institutional level, it may overlook particularly innovative departments or programs: a university might rank low for overall innovation but still operate one of the world’s most innovative computer science laboratories, for instance. And it’s important to remember that whether a university ranks at the top or the bottom of the list, it’s still within the top 75 in the region: All of these universities produce original research, create useful technology and stimulate the global economy.
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April 25, 2018 / 12:14 PM / 9 months ago
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For the third year running KU Leuven tops Reuters ranking of Europe’s most innovative universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries. A Dutch-speaking school based in Belgium's Flanders region KU Leuven was founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V and continually produces a high volume of influential inventions. Patents filed by KU scientists are frequently cited by other researchers in academia and in private industry. That’s one of the key criteria in Reuters’ ranking, which was compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, and is based on proprietary data and analysis of patent filings and research paper citations.
1. The library of the university KU Leuven "Katholieke Universiteit Leuven" is pictured in Leuven, Belgium, June 8, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
Overall, the most elite ranks of Europe’s Most Innovative Universities have held steady from last year, with the UK’s Imperial College London (#2) and University of Cambridge (#3) holding onto their top spots for the third straight year. Other leading institutions simply traded a few spaces, like the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (#4, up one), University of Erlangen Nuremberg (#5, up one), and the Technical University of Munich (#6, down two). The remainder of the universities in the top 10 moved up from the teens: The University of Manchester (#7, up nine), University of Munich (#8, up four), Technical University of Denmark (#9, up five), and ETH Zurich (#10, up one).
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But even though the usual suspects continue to dominate Europe’s Most Innovative Universities, political uncertainty may be causing a big swing in where innovation happens. The trend is most clear if you consider the sum of changes in rank for each country’s institutions: The 23 German universities on this year’s list cumulatively rose 23 spots, more than any other country. Switzerland was second, with five universities up a total of 8 spots. And in contrast, the list’s 21 UK-based universities dropped a cumulative 35 spots.
Why is this shift occurring? The United Kingdom’s “Brexit” from the European Union is almost a year away, but Europe’s scientific community may already be leaving the UK in favor of research institutions on the continent. A February 2018 study published by the UK-based Centre for Global Higher Education reports that many German academics view Brexit as an “advantage,” and hope to use it to attract UK researchers to German universities; in turn, UK academics report that their own postdocs aren’t seeking positions in the UK and are looking at the EU or United States instead. And as Brexit actually unfolds, it could get worse: A November 2017 study performed by the School of International Futures for the UK’s Royal Society describes a possible post-secession United Kingdom where universities compete for a shrinking pool of skilled workers, projects that used to receive EU funding wither, researchers receive fewer invites to join consortia and attend conferences, and overseas collaboration is limited. Similarly, EU-based businesses that fund research at universities may prefer to keep their investments within the region in order to avoid the tax and regulatory headaches of working with post-Brexit UK institutions.
The government of Germany has also established itself as notably pro-science, increasing federal research budgets and encouraging growth in emerging industries such as renewable energy. (German Chancellor Angela Merkel actually holds a doctorate in quantum chemistry, and worked as a research scientist before she entered politics.) According to a 2017 analysis published in the science journal “Nature,” researchers are “flocking to the country,” in part due to the country’s €4.6-billion “Excellence Initiative,” which has helped to attract at least 4,000 foreign scientists to Germany since 2005. And in 2016, the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, or DFG), the country’s main funding agency, allocated a record €2.9 billion in grants, posting a success rate for individual grant proposals higher than comparable UK rates.
This year’s university ranking also shows how smaller countries can have an outsized presence in the world of innovation. Belgium has seven schools on the list, but with a population of only 11 million people, it can boast more top 100 innovative universities per capita than any other country in Europe. On the same per capita basis, the second most innovative country on the list is Switzerland, followed by Denmark, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Ireland. And some large countries underperform despite bigger populations and economies. Russia is Europe’s most populous country and boasts the region’s fifth largest economy, yet none of its universities count among the top 100.
To compile the ranking of Europe’s most innovative universities, Clarivate Analytics (formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters) began by identifying more than 600 global organizations that published the most articles in academic journals, including educational institutions, nonprofit charities, and government-funded institutions. That list was reduced to institutions that filed at least 50 patents with the World Intellectual Property Organization in the period between 2011 and 2016. Then they evaluated each candidate on 10 different metrics, focusing on academic papers (which indicate basic research) and patent filings (which point to an institution’s ability to apply research and commercialize its discoveries). Finally, they trimmed the list so that it only included European universities, and then ranked them based on their performance.
Of course, the relative ranking of any university does not provide a complete picture of whether its researchers are doing important, innovative work. Since the ranking measures innovation on an institutional level, it may overlook particularly innovative departments or programs: a university might rank low for overall innovation but still operate one of the world’s most innovative oncology research centers, for instance. And it’s important to remember that whether a university ranks at the top or the bottom of the list, it’s still within the top 100 on the continent: All of these universities produce original research, create useful technology and stimulate the global economy.
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Aug 30 (Reuters) - The Reuters Top 75: Asia's Most Innovative Universities,identifies the educational institutions that are doing the most to advancescience, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy. Here areAsia's most innovative universities: Rank Name Location 1 Korea Advanced Institute of South Korea Science & Technology (KAIST) 2 University of Tokyo Japan 3 Seoul National University South Korea 4 Osaka University Japan 5 Pohang University of Science South Korea & Technology (POSTECH) 6 Tohoku University Japan 7 Kyoto University Japan 8 Sungkyunkwan University South Korea 9 Yonsei University South Korea 10 Keio University Japan 11 National University of Singapore Singapore 12 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 13 Tsinghua University China 14 Korea University South Korea 15 Hanyang University South Korea 16 Peking University China 17 Gwangju Institute of Science South Korea & Technology 18 Kyushu University Japan 19 Nagoya University Japan 20 Hokkaido University Japan 21 Chinese University of Hong China Kong 22 Ajou University South Korea 23 Zhejiang University China 24 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 25 Kyung Hee University South Korea 26 Hiroshima University Japan 27 University of Auckland New Zealand 28 University of Sydney Australia 29 University of Tsukuba Japan 30 Hong Kong University of China Science & Technology 31 Tokyo Medical & Dental Japan University 32 Monash University Australia 33 University of Queensland Australia 34 University of Melbourne Australia 35 Nanyang Technological Singapore University 36 Fudan University China 37 Chonnam National University South Korea 38 Okayama University Japan 39 Shinshu University Japan 40 Kumamoto University Japan 41 Tianjin University China 42 Kanazawa University Japan 43 Ewha Womans University South Korea 44 Inha University South Korea 45 East China University of China Science & Technology 46 Chiba University Japan 47 Beijing University of China Chemical Technology 48 Waseda University Japan 49 South China University of China Technology 50 Kyungpook National University South Korea 51 Chonbuk National University South Korea 52 University of New South Wales Australia 53 Catholic University of Korea South Korea 54 Pusan National University South Korea 55 Nanjing University China 56 University of Hong Kong China 57 Huazhong University of China Science & Technology 58 Southeast University - China China 59 Konkuk University South Korea 60 Kobe University Japan 61 Dalian University of China Technology 62 Nankai University China 63 Harbin Institute of China Technology 64 Xian Jiaotong University China 65 Chung Ang University South Korea 66 Hong Kong Polytechnic China University 67 Sichuan University China 68 Sun Yat-sen University China 69 Gyeongsang National South Korea University 70 Nihon University Japan 71 Indian Institute of India Technology (IIT) 72 Indian Institute of Science India (IISC) - Bangalore 73 Putra University Malaysia Malaysia 74 University of South Australia Australia 75 University of Malaya MalaysiaUse the drop down lists to choose any two members of the Top 75 Asian Innovative Universities, and view side-by-side details about each institution.
UNIVERSITY COMPARISONS
1. KAISTSouth Korea
Website: www.kaist.edu
Students: 9,463
Academic Staff: 895
Recent KAIST research highlights include the development of a platinum-based fuel cell catalyst that removes particulate matter from the air while it is in operation, an innovation that could lead to electric vehicles that clean the air when driven. Many KAIST innovations come from the fields of robotics and AI, including the development of shock-absorbing tactile sensors which could be used as 'skin' for robots. In August 2018, KAIST will host the AI World Cup, an event where international teams compete in soccer matches with AI-controlled robots. And in 2015 a university team collaborated with Rainbow Co, a company spun out of KAIST's Humanoid Robot Research Center, to win the U.S. Department of Defense's DARPA Robotics Challenge with its adaptable humanoid robot, DRC-HUBO.
Formerly known as the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, KAIST is the nation's oldest research-oriented science and engineering university. It has campuses in Daejeon and Seoul. Established in 1971 by the Korean government, KAIST was modeled after engineering schools in the United States, and was initially funded with a multimillion-dollar loan from the United States Agency for International Development. Most major courses are taught in English, and the university maintains strong links to the U.S. academic community. A dual degree program allows students in select disciplines to simultaneously earn degrees from KAIST and partners including Carnegie Mellon University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. KAIST promotes entrepreneurship in its students through a program called Startup KAIST, which helps develop business ideas and find funding for new businesses. Notable KAIST alumni include Yi So-yeon, the first Korean to fly in space.
75. Tongji UniversityChina
Website: en.tongji.edu.cn
Students: 35,810
Academic Staff: 2,770
In April 2018 a team of engineers from Tongji University won multiple prizes at the Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition in Porto, Portugal, an annual contest to develop systems that can locate objects inside a building using radio waves, light beams, or other sensory information collected by mobile devices. The team's DWELT-PDR tracking technology ranked first in the Mobile Phone Indoor Localization category, and 2nd in overall performance. In 2017, Tongji University scientists announced the discovery of a molecule that plays a key role in regulating the growth and development of colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer in the world. The discovery could lead to new targeted therapies for the disease.
Tongji University is one of the oldest universities in China, and can trace its history back to the Tongji German Medical School, established in 1907 by a German doctor in Shanghai. Today it is a comprehensive public university that offers a wide range of programs in science, engineering, medicine, arts, law, economics and management. Notable alumni include Wang Shu, winner of the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, and Wan Gang, the former Minister of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China.
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TOTAL PATENTS FILED
1000
Total Patents Filed refers to the number of basic patents (patent families) filed by the Institution between 2011 and 2016.
84
PATENTS GRANTED
79.8%
Success Rate
Patents Granted refers to the ratio of patents filed by the Institution between 2011 and 2016 that were subsequently granted by patent offices.
47.6%
Success Rate
COMMERCIAL IMPACT
Score
59.6
Average
42.85
Commercial Impact is an indicator of how often basic research originating at an Institution has influenced commercial R&D activity, as measured by academic papers cited in patent filings.
Score
19.5
Average
42.85