In this list we present the U-Multirank 2018 top performers on the indicator ‘co-publications with industrial partners’.
This indicator adresses the level of collaboration between universities and industry. The more research is carried out with industrial partners, the more likely it is that knowledge transfer takes place between academia and business/industry.
The list of top performers in university – industry cooperation as measured by joint research publications is dominated by European (19) and Asian (6) institutions. Among them we find 4 French, 6 Japanese , 3 Austrian, 3 UK and 3 German universities of applied sciences. Among the top performers are many technical universities.
The 25 top performers in Co-publications with industrial partners are:
The list is sorted by indicator scores in descending order; possible ties are not marked.
Information about the indicator:
Indicator |
Co-publications with industrial partners |
Dimension |
Knowledge Transfer |
Definition |
The percentage of the university's research publications that list an author affiliate with an address referring to a for-profit business enterprise or private sector R&D unit (excludes for-profit hospitals and education organisations). |
Data source |
CWTS/Thomson Reuters - Web of Science Core Collection |
Time reference |
period 2013 - 2016 |