Stanford World's Most Innovative University





Stanford edged out tech giants such as MIT and Ivy League stalwart Harvard to emerge No. 1 in a Reuters ranking of the world's top 100 innovative universities. Fifty of the 100 institutions are from the US while 27 are European, according to the listing compiled by the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters. Japan is home to nine of the 100, second only to the US. Eight universites each in France and Germany found place in the ranking. While no Indian university made it to the list, China's Tsinghua University, a research varsity located in Beijing, came 72nd. The ranking criteria, based on 10 metrics, focused on academic papers and patent filings. Top-listed Stanford's faculty and alumni have founded some of the biggest tech companies in the world, including HewlettPackard, Yahoo and Google. According to a 2012 study by the university, companies formed by Stanford entrepreneurs generate total global revenue of $2.7 trillion annually, Here's a look...

Source: Economic Times, 18-09-2015