Top US universities, institutes for life sciences in 2012

Using information from the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), Nature Biotechnology selected the top universities by total gross licensing revenue received over a 5-year span. We then contacted universities to discern their licensing revenue, licenses and startups attributed solely to the life sciences (Table 1). AUTM data for biomedical research institutes is found in Table 2, using the same 5-year initial filter. Figure 1 shows that, for the universities in Table 1, life sciences are more than carrying their weight.

Table 1 US universities listed by licenses executed, licensing revenue and startups launched related to life sciences in 2012

Table 2 US biomedical research institutes listed by licenses executed, licensing revenue and startups in 2012

Figure 1: The life sciences account for the majority of incoming revenue, outgoing licenses and startups.

(a-c) The number of both overall and life sciences gross revenue, executed licenses and startups, calculated from our list of selected universities (Table 1).

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