[Reuters 2012] Top 100 Global Innovators

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The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced its 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators list, honoring 100 corporations and institutions around the world that are at the heart of innovation as measured by a series of proprietary patent-related metrics. In alphabetical order, they are:

3M Company	Eaton Corporation
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)	EMC Corporation
Alcatel-Lucent	Emerson
Altera	Ericsson
Analog Devices	European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company
Apple	Exxon Mobil
Arkema	FANUC
AT&T	Ford
Avaya	FUJIFILM
Boeing	Fujitsu
Brother Industries	General Electric
Canon	Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Chevron	Google
CNRS	Hewlett-Packard
Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique	Hitachi
Corning	Honda Motor Company
Delphi	Honeywell International
Denso Corporation	IBM
Dow Chemical Company	IFP Energies Nouvelles
DuPont	Intel

Jatco	Ricoh
John Deere	Roche
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Rockwell Automation
Korea Electronics Technology Institute	Saint-Gobain
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology	Samsung Electronics
LG Electronics	SanDisk
Lockheed Martin	Sandvik
L’Oreal	Scania
LSI Corporation	Seagate
LSIS	Seiko Epson
Marvell	Sharp
Michelin	Shin-Etsu Chemical
Micron	Siemens
Microsoft	Snecma
Mitsubishi Electric	Solvay
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	Sony
Monsanto	STMicroelectronics
Motorola	Symantec
NEC	TDK
Nike	TE Connectivity
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal	Texas Instruments
Nitto Denko	Thales
NTT	Toshiba
Olympus	Toyota Motor Corporation
Panasonic	U.S. Department of the Army
Pohang University of Science and Technology	U.S. Department of the Navy
Procter & Gamble	United Technologies
Qualcomm	Valeo
Raytheon	Xerox
Renault	Xilinx

For the first time, academic institutions and government entities made the list. The two 2012 university recipients are both from South Korea: Pohang University of Science and Technology and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. The two government entities that made the list are from the U.S.: the Departments of the Army and the Navy. The U.S. continues to lead in the number of organizations it has on the list, with 47 this year. Asia has the next highest, with 32, comprising 25 from Japan and 7 from South Korea.

Methodology:
The Top 100 list is based on four principle criteria: 1- overall patent volume, 2- patent grant success rate, 3- global reach of the portfolio and 4- patent influence as evidenced by citations.

The full report is available here.