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KIST ranks as the 6th innovative research institution in the world by Reuter
- Date : 2016-06-10
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KIST ranks as the 6th innovative research institution in the world by Reuter
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Dr. Lee Byung Gwon) announced that KIST ranked as the 6th among the world’s top 25 innovative research institutions on Tuesday (March 8). Each year, Reuter ranks the World’s Most Innovative Research Institutions by identifying the records of articles and patents.
Reuter releases its ranking of the world’s Top 25 Global Innovators (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-innovation-rankings-idUSKCN0WA2A5) among the government-run or funded research organizations by relying on data compiled by its sister business Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science.
※ Selection criteria
- The process began by identifying the government-run or funded research organizations that published the number of articles from 2008 to 2013 as indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science database.
- The list was cross-referenced against the number of patents filed by each organization during the same time period in the Derwent World Patents Index and the Derwent Innovations Index.
- Patent equivalents, citing patents and citing articles were included up to July 2015.
- The list was reduced to just those institutions that filed 70 or more World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patents.
- Final score was achieved by summing up the ranks for each area and Patent Citation Impact and Percent of Patents Cites are received 50 percent weighting.
Topping the list was France's Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Germany’s Fraunhofer Society and Japan’s Science and Technology Agency ranked as the 2nd and the 3rd, respectively. KIST ranked as the 6th in the world or the 2nd among Asian research institutions. KIST was the only organization on the list among domestic research institutions and ranked higher than other world-renowned institutions such as National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology of Japan (7th), Helmholtz Association of Germany (11th), RIKEN of Japan (13th), and Max Planck Society of Germany (15th).
On a country-by-country basis, the United States led the list with six organizations ranked (France and Japan each have four). In the meantime, European institutions account for nine out of 25 ranked institutions, more than any other continent. Asia comes in second with eight institutions. Reuter briefly introduces the selected institutions and provides information on Patent Citation Impact and Percent of Patents Cites, and potential future economic impact of the research project.