A ranking was recently posted at Agenda website of 26 most innovative European universities. The ranking was based on the number of patents filed by each university between 2008 and 2013, how many of those were granted (as a percentage) and the commercial impact the institution’s research has had. The top 26 universities are the following:
- Imperial College London
- KU Leuven, Belgium
- University of Cambridge
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
- Oxford University
- Technical University of Denmark
- Technical University of Munich
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- University of Zurich
- University of Munich
- Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris
- Ghent University, Belgium
- University of London, England
- Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
- University of Freiburg
- University of Paris Sud
- University of Paris Descartes, France
- Joseph Fourier University, France
- University of Strasbourg, Alsace, France
- University of Claude Bernard, part of the University of Lyon, France
- Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- University of Manchester, England
- Free University of Berlin, Germany
- University of Aix-Marseille, France
- The University of Montpellier, France
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