Patent Powerhouses
Compiled by Francesco Fiondella
Institutions that received the most license income in fiscal-year 2002
Banking on Invention
Institutions which got back the highest percentage of their research spending as license income in fiscal-year 2002. Pies are proportional to the institution's research expenditures.
Science by the People, for the People
Research expenditures for US universities, hospitals, and institutes equaled $37 billion in fiscal year 2002; most of the money came from federal sources.
Tech Titans of Life Sciences††
CHI Research's primary method of calculating technology strength multiplies the number of US patents awarded to a university by the current-impact index-how frequently the university's patents of the last five years are cited by current-year patents (1.0 being the average for all universities).
Science linkage–another measure of tech strength-is based on the number of papers cited in an institution's US patents. Technically-innovative patents, the logic goes, have a higher...