- Emory UniversityUSA
Website: www.emory.edu
Students: 14,067 Academic Staff: 3,964
Emory University spinout Neurotrack recently won a $500,000 research grant from Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC and Janssen Research & Development LLC. The startup is trying to change the diagnosis and prevention of memory loss and related conditions including Alzheimer’s diseases. Emory University researchers have launched 81 startups, 55 of which are still active, 11 have gone public and nine have been acquired or merged. In fiscal 2016, Emory University filed for 53 standard and 85 provisional patent applications. That same year, the school was awarded nine patents, and work it shared with other organizations saw 23 patents. Administrators also signed 31 agreements. All told, Emory’s research generated $6.6 million.
Founded as 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church in Oxford, Georgia, the university moved to Atlanta in 1915 after Coca-Cola Company founder Asa Griggs Candler donated seed money and land for a new campus. Today the school today occupies 631 acres in DeKalb County, Georgia.
http://www.reuters.com/innovative-universities-2017/compare#
@BiffBrown
That is interesting. I never viewed Emory as relevant for innovation despite being great at other things. That is a decent showing
@bernie12
This list includes universities from all over the world, treats state university systems as a single entity (e.g. University of Texas System, University of California System, University of Michigan system, etc.) and includes stand alone medical schools (e.g. Baylor College of Medicine). The rankings are based on total innovation rather than innovation per capita so it really favors larger institutions like the aforementioned state university systems.
I was somewhat surprised to see that Wash U, Brown and Dartmouth didn’t make the top 100 and that Rice University with its significant engineering school managed only 92.
That Georgia Tech finished as high as 23 - ahead of schools like Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Columbia Univ and Baylor College of Medicine - is also somewhat of a surprise.
Emory is at a considerable disadvantage here because it doesn’t have an engineering school unlike most of the schools that made the top 100 and also lacks the resources of the statewide university systems against which it is being compared…
@BiffBrown : Exactly why I am impressed. My guess is that the collaborations with Georgia Tech and CDC affiliation in biomedically related research (say vaccines) helps. In addition, drug discovery is huge.
Also, Georgia Tech doing well is not a surprise…sorry. It just isn’t. It may not have a huge lay prestige, but it is pretty renowned among those remotely knowledgeable about STEM and engineering (especially industry and government) and has seriously improved over time on top of how awesome it already was. Being innovative, especially in STEM is the who institution’s mission. For example, consider the scale of its rendition of an undergraduate BME program (it was one of the very first to fully infuse PBL into a BME or life sciences curriculum. Georgia Tech doesn’t really play about education or research. It stretches its dollars as far as it can go). Also, it looks like “innovative” here is more so quantified by start-up culture among whatever faculty and institutes. It seems like a good thing, and probably is mostly beneficial or benign, but it could also spell many conflicts of interest and things of that nature. American universities seem to do well, and I suspect that part of this is because of how important medical centers are to American Universities. Engineering + large medical centers seem to correlate with a desire to do a start up or patent things. It is very interesting for sure. However, this may go into quantity versus quality. Like we generally know which schools tend to generate start-ups or products that have the highest impact and these rankings may not fully reflect that. Like the Oxbridge thing you brought up. One could imagine that even if they are slower paced on average than some of the schools that rank above them, when they do have breakthroughs resulting in a patent are start-up, they may tend to have more impact than some of those schools. Given that science is typically involved, quality and impact are super important.