Dive Brief:
- Of the top 100 patenting universities, 62% are in the U.S., followed by China with 18%.
- The University of California system had more patents granted in 2013 — 399 — than any other university in the world, according to Intellectual Property Owners.
- Rounding out the top five are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with 281 patents, Tsinghua University with 193, Stanford University at 170, and the University of Texas with 169.
Dive Insight:
As pointed out by Patent Docs, the report by Intellectual Property Owners doesn’t include what the correlation is between the number of patents for each university and how much grant money they obtained, which would be a useful data point. The top patent producers include U.S. public universities, such as the universities of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois; private universities, such as the University of Columbia and the California Institute of Technology; and small schools, such as Dartmouth College, with 6,342 total students and 38 patents in 2013, coming in at No. 53 on the list.