A new study shows a growing contribution of universities to the continent's innovation ecosystem but laments the bloc's fragmentation is crippling the ability to turn high-level scientific research into economic competitiveness.
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00:00What are the most active European universities in terms of patent submissions?
00:12A new report shows that most patents are submitted in a handful of places.
00:19The most active university has been France's University of Grenoble,
00:26with over 3,300 submissions,
00:30followed by Zurich's ETH and Munich's Technical University.
00:36In terms of countries, Germany filed the most applications,
00:41followed by France, the UK and Italy.
00:45However, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark and Belgium
00:51have the highest average of applications compared to the number of universities.
00:58The overall number of applications by European universities
01:03has increased steadily in recent decades.
01:07The most active sectors have been pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and measurement.
01:15However, the study says over 20% of the patents are not exploited commercially
01:22due to the continent's legislative fragmentation and lack of funding for academic research.