For the second year running, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) has earned a place on Thomson Reuters’ ranking of Europe’s Most Innovative Universities. In the 2017 edition, the University is ranked 84th, up one place from last year. Among Spanish institutions, it remains the top technical university and is in fourth position overall.

The first step in producing this ranking, which was compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, was to select the institutions with the most articles published in Web of Science–indexed journals from 2010 to 2015 and eliminate those that filed fewer than 50 patents with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in the same period. The next step was to consider a series of indicators related to scientific output (impact of citations of journal articles related to patents or from the business sector, percentage of journal articles produced in collaboration with industry, and total number of articles published) and to the patents filed (patent volume, patent success, global patents, patent citations, patent citation impact, and percentage of patents cited by other patents).