UB maintains its leading position as the most innovative university in Spain

Reuters Top 100: Europe's Most Innovative Universities
Reuters Top 100: Europe's Most Innovative Universities
Research
(27/04/2018)

The University of Barcelona is once more, for its third year in a row, the most innovative university in Spain. This is stated in the new edition of the ranking Reuters Top 100: Europeʼs Most Innovative Universities. This list identifies those institutions that contribute the most to science, invention of new technologies and global economy.

Reuters Top 100: Europe's Most Innovative Universities
Reuters Top 100: Europe's Most Innovative Universities
Research
27/04/2018

The University of Barcelona is once more, for its third year in a row, the most innovative university in Spain. This is stated in the new edition of the ranking Reuters Top 100: Europeʼs Most Innovative Universities. This list identifies those institutions that contribute the most to science, invention of new technologies and global economy.

The UB holds the 69th position and it is listed among the top 100 most innovative universities worldwide, apart from maintaining its leading positions in Spain. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de València and University of Valencia are some of other Spanish centers listed among the top 100 in innovation. The ranking is led by the KU Leuven (Belgium), Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge.

Reuters lists the universities according to the amount of patent fillings, which was about 93 between 2011 and 2016 in the UB; the relation of submitted and given patents, which was at 61.3 % for the UB, and the commercial impact of basic university research, calculated out of the academic article citation of the institutions. The tasks on transfer and knowledge of the University of Barcelona are carried out by Bosch i Gimpera Foundation. Reuters Top 100 has identified the 600 global institutions that publish more scientific articles in academic journals. This first list was reduced to the institutions that registered at least 50 patents in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) between 2011 and 2016. Last, each institution was assessed according to ten different metrics related to the publications, patents and basic research, among others.