The 100 most innovative universities in Europe 2017

Ellie Bothwell

Reporter and rankings editor

May 5 2017

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University of Cambridge have topped a new ranking of Europe’s most innovative universities.

The Belgian institution again takes pole position in Reuters’ second annual ranking of in part due to producing a high volume of influential inventions.

But Germany is the most-represented nation in the list, taking 23 of the top 100 places. It is led by the Technical University of Munich in fourth place.

The UK and France are joint second when it comes to quantity of innovative institutions, each claiming 17 places in the table.

The ranking�� draws on several indicators including patent filings and research paper citations. It aims to identify institutions that are doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy.

But when the results are adjusted to take into account a country’s population and GDP per capita other smaller countries with more modest economies seem most impressive.

With three institutions in the list and a population of less than 5 million people, the Republic of Ireland boasts more top 100 innovative universities per head than any other country in Europe.

Overall Technical University of Berlin both made the most gains in the table since last year, jumping 21 spots to 17^th and 41^st respectively.

Universite Libre of Brussels and the University of Leeds both dropped 17 places, making them the biggest fallers.

Reuters’ top 100 most innovative universities in Europe 2017

Click each institution to view its World University Rankings 2016-2017 results

Rank	University	Country
1	KU Leuven	Belgium
2	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
4	Technical University of Munich	Germany
5	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
6	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany
7	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
8	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
9	University of Zurich	Switzerland
10	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
11	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
12	LMU Munich	Germany
13	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
14	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
15	Montpellier University	France
16	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
17	Leiden University	Netherlands
18	Free University of Berlin	Germany
19	Ghent University	Belgium
20	Paris Descartes University	France
21	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
22	Paris-Sud University	France
23	University of London	United Kingdom
24	University of Freiburg	Germany
25	University of Basel	Switzerland
26	TU Dresden	Germany
27	Heidelberg University	Germany
28	Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz	Germany
29	University of Strasbourg	France
30	Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Germany
31	Grenoble Institute of Technology	France
32	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
33	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
34	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
35	Aix-Marseille University	France
36	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
37	Claude Bernard University Lyon 1	France
38	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
39	Polytechnic University of Milan	Italy
40	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
41	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
42	University of Bordeaux	France
43	Grenoble Alpes University	France
44	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
45	École Polytechnique	France
46	University of Oslo	Norway
47	Paris Diderot University – Paris 7	France
48	Vrije Universiteit Brussel��	Belgium
49	Saarland University	Germany
50	Utrecht University	Netherlands
51	Vienna University of Technology	Austria
52	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
53	University of Milan	Italy
54	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
55	University of Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III	France
56	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
57	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
58	Hannover Medical School	Germany
59	University of Tübingen	Germany
60	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
61	University of Münster	Germany
62	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
63	University of Barcelona	Spain
64	Université de Lorraine	France
65	University of Twente	Netherlands
66	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
67	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
68	Aarhus University	Denmark
69	Friedrich Schiller University of Jena	Germany
70	University of Groningen	Netherlands
71	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
72	University of Bretagne Loire	France
73	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
74	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
75	University College Cork	Ireland
76	University of Stuttgart	Germany
77	Maastricht University	Netherlands
78	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
79	University of Rennes 1	France
80	University of Liège	Belgium
81	University of Barcelona	Spain
82	University of Valencia	Spain
83	University of Padua	Italy
84	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya	Spain
85	Polytechnic University of Valencia	Spain
86	University of Bologna	Italy
87	University of Bonn	Germany
88	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
89	TU Darmstadt	Germany
90	Jagiellonian University	Poland
91	University of Rostock	Germany
92	University of Santiago de Compostela	Spain
93	University of Seville	Spain
94	University of Nice Sophia Antipolis	France
95	Leibniz University of Hanover	Germany
96	Technical University of Madrid	Spain
97	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain
98	University College Dublin	Ireland
99	University of Granada	Spain
100	Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain

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