Top 50 Universities Having the Most Valid Invention Patents Released

2017/04/20

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Development Center released the Top 50 Universities Having the Most Valid Invention Patents by the End of 2016, of which the top 5 universities are Tsinghua University (8,002), Zhejiang University (7,764), Harbin Institute of Technology (5,007), Southeast University (4,665) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (4,494). Beijing University (ranking 25th) with 1,888 valid patents falls behind the Dalian University of Technology (ranking 21st). The total number of the valid invention patents owned by the top 50 universities is 116,156 pieces.