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China and India have the biggest populations in the Asia-Pacific region, and the economic news coming out of both countries usually dominates world headlines.
But it’s their relatively small regional neighbours Japan and South Korea that dominate the Reuters Top 75: Asia’s Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies the educational institutions that are doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy.
Out of the top 20 universities, 17 are based in Japan and South Korea. Topping the list as the most innovative university in Asia is KAIST,
also known as Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology. Established in 1971 by the Korean government with funding from the United States, the university was modelled after engineering schools in the US, and its instruction stresses problem-solving skills and hands-on experience over textbook learning.
KAIST earned its first-place rank by producing original and influential research. Organisations around the world cite KAIST’s patent portfolio as significant prior art in their own patent applications more than any other university in Asia – a strong indicator that the university has an outsized impact on global research and development. That’s a key criterion in the Reuters ranking, which was compiled with data from the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters. The ranking is based on a methodology that focuses on academic papers, which indicate basic research performed at a university, and patent filings, which point to an institution’s interest in protecting and commercialising its discoveries.
Universities based in Northeast Asia tend to produce a high volume of patent applications, and that helps their home countries stand out as hot spots for innovation in the Asia-Pacific region.
On average, the South Korean and Japanese universities on the list file twice as many patent applications than universities in the seven other ranked countries. The second most innovative university in Asia is Japan’s University of Tokyo. Established in 1877 as the nation’s first Imperial university, “Todai” now enrols more than 28,000 students, and operates 13 university-wide centres and 11 affiliated research institutes.
Nearly 200 companies from across the world partner with the University of Tokyo on collaborative research projects, including Johnson & Johnson, which helps sponsor the Department of Healthcare Quality Assessment, and Fujifilm Corp, which backs the Laboratory of Next Generation Drug Development.
The highest ranked school outside of Northeast Asia is the National University of Singapore (#11). When it was founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS enrolled just 23 students. The university took its modern form after a 1980 merger with Nanyang University, and currently has about 38,000 students across three campuses. China’s highest ranked university is Tsinghua University (#13), a public research university based in Beijing.
China and India have the biggest populations in the Asia-Pacific region, and the economic news coming out of both countries usually dominates world headlines.
But it’s their relatively small regional neighbours Japan and South Korea that dominate the Reuters Top 75: Asia’s Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies the educational institutions that are doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy.
Out of the top 20 universities, 17 are based in Japan and South Korea. Topping the list as the most innovative university in Asia is KAIST,
also known as Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology. Established in 1971 by the Korean government with funding from the United States, the university was modelled after engineering schools in the US, and its instruction stresses problem-solving skills and hands-on experience over textbook learning.
KAIST earned its first-place rank by producing original and influential research. Organisations around the world cite KAIST’s patent portfolio as significant prior art in their own patent applications more than any other university in Asia – a strong indicator that the university has an outsized impact on global research and development. That’s a key criterion in the Reuters ranking, which was compiled with data from the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters. The ranking is based on a methodology that focuses on academic papers, which indicate basic research performed at a university, and patent filings, which point to an institution’s interest in protecting and commercialising its discoveries.
Universities based in Northeast Asia tend to produce a high volume of patent applications, and that helps their home countries stand out as hot spots for innovation in the Asia-Pacific region.
On average, the South Korean and Japanese universities on the list file twice as many patent applications than universities in the seven other ranked countries. The second most innovative university in Asia is Japan’s University of Tokyo. Established in 1877 as the nation’s first Imperial university, “Todai” now enrols more than 28,000 students, and operates 13 university-wide centres and 11 affiliated research institutes.
Nearly 200 companies from across the world partner with the University of Tokyo on collaborative research projects, including Johnson & Johnson, which helps sponsor the Department of Healthcare Quality Assessment, and Fujifilm Corp, which backs the Laboratory of Next Generation Drug Development.
The highest ranked school outside of Northeast Asia is the National University of Singapore (#11). When it was founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS enrolled just 23 students. The university took its modern form after a 1980 merger with Nanyang University, and currently has about 38,000 students across three campuses. China’s highest ranked university is Tsinghua University (#13), a public research university based in Beijing.
