Tech-Transfer Scorecard
These are the highest-ranking institutions in various measures of performance in technology transfer. See Note for additional information.» Return to the introduction
| Licensing income per dollar of research spending | ||
| RANK | INSTITUTION | AMOUNT |
| 1 | Florida State U | $0.35 |
| 2 | Columbia U | $0.28 |
| 3 | Brigham Young U | $0.23 |
| 4 | Dartmouth College | $0.18 |
| 5 | Michigan State U | $0.12 |
| 6 | Stanford U | $0.08 |
| 7 | Yale U | $0.08 |
| 8 | U of Florida | $0.08 |
| 9 | Tulane U | $0.08 |
| 10 | Carnegie Mellon U | $0.07 |
| 11 | U of California System | $0.06 |
| 12 | Clemson U | $0.05 |
| 13 | California Institute of Technology | $0.04 |
| 14 | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, U of Wisconsin, Madison | $0.04 |
| 15 | Emory U | $0.04 |
| 16 | Washington Research Foundation, U of Washington | $0.04 |
| 17 | U of Cincinnati | $0.04 |
| 18 | U of Rochester | $0.03 |
| 19 | Baylor College of Medicine | $0.03 |
| 20 | U of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | $0.03 |
| 21 | New York U | $0.03 |
| 22 | Rutgers U | $0.03 |
| 23 | U of Kentucky Research Foundation | $0.03 |
| 24 | U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | $0.03 |
| 25 | Ohio U | $0.03 |
| 26 | Harvard U | $0.03 |
| 27 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $0.03 |
| 28 | State U of New York Research Foundation | $0.03 |
| 29 | Wake Forest U | $0.02 |
| 30 | U of Chicago, ARCH Development Corp | $0.02 |
| 31 | Washington U in St. Louis | $0.02 |
| 32 | U of Minnesota | $0.02 |
| 33 | U of Akron | $0.02 |
| 34 | North Dakota State U | $0.02 |
| 35 | U of Virginia Patents Foundation | $0.02 |
| 36 | U of Rhode Island | $0.02 |
| 37 | U of Pennsylvania | $0.02 |
| 38 | Iowa State U | $0.02 |
| 39 | Arizona State U | $0.02 |
| 40 | U of Massachusetts | $0.02 |
| 41 | U of Utah | $0.02 |
| 42 | Temple U | $0.01 |
| 43 | Brown U Research Foundation | $0.01 |
| 44 | U of Dayton | $0.01 |
| 45 | Princeton U | $0.01 |
| 46 | U of Arkansas at Fayetteville | $0.01 |
| 47 | Kent State U | $0.01 |
| 48 | U of Georgia | $0.01 |
| 49 | Cornell Research Foundation | $0.01 |
| 50 | U of Alabama at Birmingham | $0.01 |
| 51 | Loyola U Medical Center (Ill) | $0.01 |
| 52 | Texas A&M U System | $0.01 |
| 53 | North Carolina State U | $0.01 |
| 54 | Georgia Institute of Technology | $0.01 |
| 55 | U of Houston | $0.01 |
| 56 | U of Illinois, Chicago and Urbana-Champaign | $0.01 |
| 57 | U of Iowa Research Foundation | $0.01 |
| 58 | Thomas Jefferson U | $0.01 |
| 59 | Johns Hopkins U | $0.01 |
| 60 | U of Maryland at College Park | $0.01 |
| 61 | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties | $0.01 |
| 62 | Ohio State U | $0.01 |
| 63 | Oregon Health Sciences U | $0.01 |
| 64 | U of Michigan | $0.01 |
| 65 | U of Tennessee Research Corp. | $0.01 |
| 66 | Purdue Research Foundation | $0.01 |
| 67 | Northwestern U | $0.01 |
| 68 | Southern Illinois U at Carbondale | $0.01 |
| 69 | Kansas State U Research Foundation | $0.01 |
| 70 | Duke U | $0.01 |
| 71 | U of Nebraska at Lincoln | $0.01 |
| 72 | U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $0.01 |
| 73 | Vanderbilt U | $0.01 |
| 74 | U of Pittsburgh | $0.01 |
| 75 | U of Texas at Austin | $0.01 |
| 76 | Michigan Technological U | $0.01 |
| 77 | Indiana U (Advanced Research Technology Institute) | $0.01 |
| 78 | Oregon State U | $0.01 |
| 79 | East Carolina U | $0.00 |
| 80 | U of Kansas | $0.00 |
| 81 | Medical College of Ohio | $0.00 |
| 82 | U of Connecticut | $0.00 |
| 83 | U of Delaware | $0.00 |
| 84 | Syracuse U | $0.00 |
| 85 | U of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | $0.00 |
| 86 | Pennsylvania State U | $0.00 |
| 87 | Case Western Reserve U | $0.00 |
| 88 | Tufts U | $0.00 |
| 89 | Idaho Research Foundation, U of Idaho | $0.00 |
| 90 | U of South Alabama | $0.00 |
| 91 | Wayne State U | $0.00 |
| 92 | U of Oregon | $0.00 |
| 93 | Wright State U | $0.00 |
| 94 | Lehigh U | $0.00 |
| 95 | U of South Florida | $0.00 |
| 96 | U of Southern California | $0.00 |
| 97 | Montana State U | $0.00 |
| 98 | Brandeis U | $0.00 |
| 99 | Colorado State U | $0.00 |
| 100 | New York Medical College | $0.00 |
| 101 | U of New Mexico Science & Technology Corp | $0.00 |
| 102 | U of Hawaii | $0.00 |
| 103 | Mississippi State U | $0.00 |
| 104 | Oklahoma State U | $0.00 |
| 105 | Auburn U | $0.00 |
| 106 | U of Maryland-Baltimore County | $0.00 |
| 107 | U of Miami | $0.00 |
| 108 | U of Arizona | $0.00 |
| 109 | U of Louisville | $0.00 |
| 110 | U of Maryland at Baltimore | $0.00 |
| 111 | U of Montana | $0.00 |
| 112 | San Diego State U | $0.00 |
| 113 | U of New Orleans | $0.00 |
| 114 | U of New Hampshire | $0.00 |
| 115 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | $0.00 |
| 116 | New Mexico State U | $0.00 |
| 117 | U of Maine | $0.00 |
| These institutions are getting the greatest financial bang from their research buck. The figures, which include royalty payments and realized income from equity given as part of a license, can be skewed; Florida State, for example, has a small research base but earns tens of millions from its license of a technique for making the anticancer drug Taxol. |
Number of inventions disclosed per $1-million spending on research
Number of U.S. patent applications filed per $1-million spending on research
Licenses and options executed relative to number of inventions disclosed
Licensing income per dollar of research spending
Average income per license
Universities that formed the most start-up companies
Number of start-up companies formed per $10-million spending on research
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Browseable lists of licensing revenues and patent activity at universities, 1998-2000