World Impact Rankings 2020: 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 comparisons across three broad areas: research, outreach and stewardship.
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 494 universities from 71 countries.
View the Impact Rankings 2020 by SDG: industry, innovation and infrastructure (SDG 9) methodology
The list is led by Japan’s University of Tokyo and Canada’s University of Toronto in joint first place. The Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology and South Korea’s Yonsei University (Seoul campus) share third place.
Japan is the most-represented nation in the table with 50 institutions, followed by Russia with 34 and Turkey with 33.
Explore Rating by Sustainable Development Goal
OVERALL
1
No poverty
2
Zero hunger
3
Good health and well-being
4
Quality education
5
Gender equality
6
Clean water and sanitation
7
Affordable and clean energy
8
Decent work and economic growth
9
Industry innovation and infrastructure
10
Reducing inequalities
11
Sustainable cities and communities
12
Responsible consumption and production
13
Climate action
14
Life below water
15
Life on land
16
Peace, justice and strong institutions
17
Partnerships for the goals
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