Dutch research universities score well in university-industry research cooperation

According to the recently published University-Industry Research Cooperation Scoreboard, 12 Dutch research universities are among the top 300 universities in the world with the highest intensity of university-industry co-publications. Four Dutch research universities rank among the top 50, namely the universities of technology of Delft (rank 1-10), Eindhoven (rank 1-10) and Twente (rank 11-25) as well as Wageningen University and Research Centre (rank 26-50).

These are the results of a recent study by the Centre for Science and Technology at Leiden University, the University-Industry Research Cooperation Scoreboard for the years 2003-2007. For the full report, see http://www.socialsciences.leiden.edu/cwts/news/scoreboard.html.