University-Industry Research Cooperation Scoreboard 2009-2010

The statistical table exhibits a range of quantitative empirical data on the volume of university-industry research cooperation activities during the years 2003-2007.

University-Industry Research Co-publications

This new edition of the UIRC Scoreboard was produced at CWTS from the month of September to November 2009. The statistical table exhibits a range of quantitative empirical data on the volume of university-industry research cooperation activities during the years 2003-2007.


UIRC’s units of analysis are the University-Industry Co-publications (UICs), as identified within the international peer-reviewed research literature indexed by Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) database. Each UIC is a jointly authored research publication with author affiliate addresses referring to at least one university and one private sector organization. UICs represent (successful) research cooperation – or research-related interactions - between universities and private sector organizations. These organizations are usually business companies operating within manufacturing industries, but also services industries or privately funded research organizations.

World’s top 500 universities

The quantities of WoS-indexed UICs produced by a university are the underlying metrics of the scoreboard, which contains UIC ratings for the world’s top 500 largest research active universities. These 500 were determined according to the size of their internationally visible research output in terms of their WoS-indexed publication output during the time-period 2003-2007. This set spans a wide range of countries and many different types of research universities.

UIC indicators

UIRC 2009-2010 includes two types of UIC-specific performance indicators for each of the 500 universities: - UIC Volume, representing the absolute number of UICs and reflecting the total UIRC activity; - UIC Intensity, representing the size-normalized share of UICs within the total publication output.  The series of UIC Intensity ratings include an overall rating, supplemented by a rating for six broad fields of science separately. These broad fields are mutually exclusive and collectively cover all research fields. The scoreboard therefore consists of seven UIC performance measures, corresponding with the data columns in the UIRC scoreboard:

  1. UIC volume   - all fields of science;
  2. UIC intensity – all fields of science;
  3. UIC intensity – Natural sciences;
  4. UIC intensity – Medical sciences;
  5. UIC intensity – Life sciences and Agriculture;
  6. UIC intensity – Engineering sciences;
  7. UIC intensity – Social sciences and Humanities.
       

Methodology

Contrary to its previous edition, this scoreboard is primarily designed for international benchmarking and strategic analysis of university research performance, and less suitable for ranking of individual universities. The changes in methodology and novel features are described in the accompanying technical notes.

Published UIC applications

  Tijssen, R.J.W., T.N van Leeuwen, and E. van Wijk, Benchmarking university-industry research cooperation worldwide: performance measurements and indicators based on co-authorship data for the world’s largest universities, Research Evaluation, 18, 13-24. 2009.

Contact

For further information, or in case of comments or suggestions, please contact:

Robert Tijssen
Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS)
Leiden University The Netherlands

T: +31 71 5273960
F: +31 71 5273911
E: Tijssen – at - cwts.leidenuniv.nl

Acknowledgement

Work on UICR 2009-2010 scoreboard was supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science through the CHERPA research grant.

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Last Modified: 12-01-2010