Nine of the world’s 10 most innovative institutions are in the United States, according to new data published in Nature, a leading scientific journal.
Topping the 2017 Nature Index rankings are the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, Rockefeller University in New York and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The only non-American institution in the top 10 is Israel’s Weizmann Institute.
The rankings rank the world’s 200 elite scientific institutions based on quality of research and impact on inventions.
Other institutions from around the world ranked high include the University of Strasbourg (16th, France), the University of Geneva (21st, Switzerland), Hanyang University (23rd, South Korea), Dundee University (26th, United Kingdom) and the Karolinska Institute (38th, Sweden). Two Japanese institutions, Osaka University (31) and the Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (39), were among the top 50, according to Nature magazine.
Richard Jefferson, who developed the ranking system, calls this effort “the first step toward an ‘innovation mapping. It will enable scientists, investors, companies, and policymakers to make better, evidence-based decisions about the choice of partners and ways to deliver new products, services, and methods to society.”
