Impact Rankings 2023: industry, innovation, and infrastructure
The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We use carefully calibrated indicators to provide comprehensive and balanced comparison across four broad areas: research, stewardship, outreach and teaching.
This table on SDG 9 – industry, innovation and infrastructure measures universities’ research on industry and innovation, their number of patents and spin-off companies and their research income from industry.
The list includes 873 institutions from 87 countries/regions.
View the methodology for Impact Rankings 2023: industry, innovation and infrastructure (SDG 9)
The ranking is led by three German institutions and one Dutch institution in joint first place: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, University of Stuttgart, Technical University of Munich and University of Twente.
South Korea is the most-represented nation in the top 100 with 11 institutions, followed by Canada with nine and Japan with seven.
The Impact Rankings are inherently dynamic: they are growing rapidly each year as many more universities seek to demonstrate their commitment to delivering the SDGs by joining our database; and they allow institutions to demonstrate rapid improvement year-on-year, by introducing clear new policies, for example, or by providing clearer and more open evidence of their progress. Therefore, we expect and welcome regular change in the ranked order of institutions (and we discourage year-on-year comparisons) as universities continue to drive this urgent agenda.
View the full results of the overall Impact Rankings 2023
Read our analysis of the Impact Rankings 2023 results
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