DTU climbs nine places in Reuters’ ranking of the World’ Most Innovative Universities and tops the list in the Nordic region for the fifth consecutive year.
In the ‘Reuters Top 100: The World’s Most Innovative Universities – 2019’ ranking, DTU is up nine places this year, from number 57 to number 48 in the world, and from number 13 to number 9 in Europe.
DTU has maintained its top ranking in the Nordic region since the Reuters ranking was first published in 2015. The highest-ranked European university is KU Leuven, which is number seven on the list.Stanford University tops the global list—also for the fifth year running.
“DTU’s ranking in the Reuters list reflects our researchers’ unwavering focus on ensuring that our research benefits society. It’s not just that we’re submitting a large number of patents, but that a great many of them are successful. Moreover, our extensive collaboration with trade and industry ensures that the solutions developed by our researchers are applied in practice,” says Marianne Thellersen, Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Senior Vice President.
“DTU is not about doing well in rankings, but it is, of course, very gratifying that we are moving up the Reuters ranking and that for the fifth year in a row we are the number one university in the Nordic region within innovation. Driving university innovation is a task we take very seriously. Because we know that if you take your foot off the accelerator for just for a moment, you soon slide down the importance scale.”
Four of DTU’s alliance universities are also ranked by Reuters: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is number 17, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is number 34, Technical University of Munich (TUM) is number 46 and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is number 67.
Reuters publishes two innovation rankings a year: A European ranking in the spring (in which DTU was number 13 this year) and a world ranking in the autumn, which has just been published. The two rankings are based on different methodologies and are therefore not directly comparable.
The criteria on which the ‘Reuters’ Top 100: The World’s Most Innovative Universities’ ranking is based:
1. Patent Volume
2. Patent Success
3. Global Patents
4. Patent Citations
5. Patent Citation Impact
6. Percent of Patents Cited
7. Patent to Article Citation Impact
8. Industry Article Citation Impact
9. Percent of Industry Collaborative Articles
10. Total Web of Science Core Collection Papers