Correction to: Nature Biotechnology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01076-2, published 7 October 2021.

In the version of this article initially published, Kyoto University was missing from Table 1, “Top 20 academic centers ranked by number of issued biotech patents, 2016–2020,” in position 19, while Kyoto University should also have been listed in Table 3, “Top ten most active non-US universities by number of issued biotech patents, 2020,” in position 2. The tables have been amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.