New York Times Lists Top Universities Receiving Patents in2006

College Search & Selection
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<p>The New York Times Magazine, dated September 30, 2007, devoted itself to issues surrounding the college selection process. In fact, the entire issue is dedicated to this topic, and is called, "The College Issue."</p>

<p>An interesting list that the magazine published concerns itself with the top universities receiving patents in 2006. The top ten are:</p>

<p>University/ Number of Patents</p>

<p>University of California 410</p>

<p>MIT 139</p>

<p>California Inst. of Tech. 115</p>

<p>University of Texas 107</p>

<p>Wisconsin Alumni
Research Foundation 101</p>

<p>Stanford University 98</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins University (JHU) 91</p>

<p>University of Michigan 69</p>

<p>Cornell Research Foundation 61</p>

<p>University of Florida
Research Foundation 60</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/magazine%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.nytimes.com/magazine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Do we have another parameter, here, with which to assess prestige, quality of education in terms of what is available to students, etc.? Does this stat have any value, any particular implication of value to us "consumers" of higher education?</p>

<p>Does it surprise anyone else that so many obvious institutions are missing, here?</p>

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<p>The public university stats are systemwide I believe.</p>

<p>Incidentally, the UC system runs 3 national labs (Los Alamos, Livermore and Berkeley).</p>

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<p>patent = research / inventions
those universities are particularly strong in science and research / inventions nowadays are more leaning toward science related majors. It's not a surprise that these are up there. The ivies are not particularly strong in science & technology related.</p>

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<p>Is there any way we can break down to patents per campus in the UC system?</p>

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<p>I couldn't find the list in the linked website. Could you point us to a more specific URL ? </p>

<p>Could you also please post a complete list beyond the top 10 ?</p>

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<p>Here is a related metric that rates a school's efficiency in translating research into commercialization..."Mind to Market"</p>

<p><a href="http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pdf/m2m2006_uni_tech.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pdf/m2m2006_uni_tech.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Top 5 :
MIT
Cal (system)
CalTech
Stanford
Florida</p>

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<p>Institution Licensing income Licenses and options executed Start-up companies formed U.S. patent applications filed U.S. patents issued Total research spending </p>

<p>New York U. $109,023,125 30 4 110 23 $244,415,000
U. of California system $74,275,000 273 5 965 70 $2,791,777,000
U. of Wisconsin at Madison $47,689,165 203 2 217 93 $763,875,000
Stanford U. $47,272,397 89 9 277 87 $693,529,925
U. of Minnesota $45,550,764 100 3 153 38 $515,061,000
U. of Florida $37,402,284 64 8 301 53 $427,997,263
Michigan State U. $36,402,250 44 5 82 45 $325,483,000
Wake Forest U. $34,296,000 7 1 13 9 $137,642,337
U. of Colorado System $34,128,958 41 9 100 18 $571,342,900
U. of Rochester $33,736,882 23 7 102 24 $305,720,000</p>

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<p>sofla: the list for number of patents for UC was not broken down</p>

<p>bruno: only the top 10 are listed. Try this link: </p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>rogracer: there is updated info. check it out at the above website or at the source for the info, the US Patent and Tradmark Office.</p>

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Does this stat have any value, any particular implication of value to us "consumers" of higher education?

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<p>It can be useful if you (or your kid, if you're a parent) want a place with an innovative culture. It probably indicates that there's a lot of research and development going on, which translates into more opportunities for undergrads to get research jobs, or possibly patents themselves.</p>