In terms of research cooperation with the business sector TU Delft, just like Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), is among the top ten performing research universities in the world. During the period 2006-2008, between ten and twenty per cent of these ten universities’ scientific publications were produced in cooperation with researchers in the business sector.
ScoreboardThis was revealed in the University-Industry Research Cooperation (UIRC) Scoreboard 2011 published this week by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University. CWTS examined the 500 largest research universities worldwide and established which proportion of their research publications indexed by Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science database in the period 2006-2008 had been produced in cooperation with the business sector.
For each university, the Scoreboard shows the absolute number of co-publications with the business sector, the ratio of co-publications with the business sector to the total number of the university’s publications and, finally, its position in the top 500. CWTS does not give exact positions but it does state a range. Both TU Delft and TU/e are in the range of 1-10.
The Top 10
Besides TU Delft and TU/e, the Top 10 includes two universities in Japan (Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University in Tokyo) and Sweden (University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm), and one in Denmark (DTU Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby), Finland (University of Helsinki), Norway (Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim) and the United States (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York).
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