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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Canada · North America · Silver

#482World rank of 1,038
51.9ICI scoreout of 100
#18National rank, of 28 in Canada
#137Regional rank, of 231 in North America
340Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
170Company groups worked with (50 on two or more works)

Memorial University of Newfoundland is ranked #482 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is breadth (68): partners spread across many research fields. It is held back most by scale (37): a network of 50 company groups on two or more joint works; and by co-creation (47): 340 verified industry works against about 368 expected for its mix of fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #546 of 1,195, Silver standing · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
47

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 340 verified works against about 368 expected for its fields (0.92 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
66

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 18 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
37

The size of its industry network: company groups on two or more works, sustained partnerships, and its place in the worldwide network of universities and companies. 50 company groups on two or more joint works; 18 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
68

How varied its partners are, judged by each company's main research field. Measured across the main research fields of all the company groups it worked with.

Each pillar is a percentile among the 1,038 ranked universities: a value of 80 means a higher value than about 80 in every 100 of them. The ICI score (51.9) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 482 of 1,038 overall; 18 of 28 in Canada; 137 of 231 in North America. Standing bands: Platinum for ranks 1 to 100, Gold 101 to 300, Silver 301 to 600. How the index is built →

In numbers

The evidence behind the position

3.3%of its 10,257 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.92Industry co-authorship rate: 0.92 times what its mix of research fields would predict (340 verified works; about 368 expected)
18sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In Canada

18 of 28 ranked universities in Canada

  1. #16 Simon Fraser University world #454, score 53.7
  2. #17 Dalhousie University world #462, score 53.1
  3. #18 Memorial University of Newfoundland world #482, score 51.9
  4. #19 York University world #517, score 50.3
  5. #20 Polytechnique Montréal world #555, score 47.5

All ranked universities →   North America: 137 of 231 →

Where it works with industry

Sector strengths

Verified industry works by sector, with its position in each sector ranking. A university is ranked in a sector once it has at least 20 verified works there; sectors with fewer than 50 eligible universities are provisional.

Sector positions

#353 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics93 verified works in the sector
#160 of 188Next-Generation Communications25.5 verified works in the sector
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
93#353 of 638
Next-Generation Communications
25.5#160 of 188
Agriculture and Food Technology
18.5under 20 works
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
10.5under 20 works
Built Environment and Infrastructure
6under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
6under 20 works
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
5under 20 works
Chemicals, Process and Resources
5under 20 works
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
3under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
3under 20 works
Clean Energy Transition
3under 20 works
Cybersecurity and Digital Trust
2under 20 works
Medical Technology and Digital Health
2under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
1under 20 works
Space and Satellite Technology
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
155.5counted in the overall index

184.5 of its 340 verified industry works fall within the 21 sectors. The rest have research topics that belong to no industry sector (basic science, for example) or are consortium papers with 100 or more authors, which the sector indices leave out; all of them count fully in the overall index.

Who it works with

Company partners, 2021 to 2025

Memorial University of Newfoundland co-authored verified work with 170 company groups, consortium papers aside: 50 of them on two or more works, and 18 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 170 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
Johnson & JohnsonUnited StatesMedicine455 of 5
Eli LillyUnited StatesMedicine175 of 5
NovartisSwitzerlandMedicine124 of 5
Akvaplan-nivaNorwayEnvironmental Science115 of 5
CargillUnited StatesAgricultural and Biological Sciences103 of 5
NokiaFinlandEngineering104 of 5
JSS Medical ResearchIndiaMedicine94 of 5
Huawei TechnologiesChinaComputer Science83 of 5
Akebia TherapeuticsUnited StatesMedicine83 of 5
DNVNorwayEngineering73 of 5
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)STATE-OWNEDChinaEngineering74 of 5
WatersUnited StatesChemistry74 of 5

A company group brings together a company's subsidiaries and research labs under one name. A work counts half when its only company author also holds a post at this university. Consortium papers with 100 or more authors are left out of this table.

Examples of its work with industry

Most-cited verified joint works

Its most-cited verified works with 30 or fewer authors, leaving out guidelines and consensus statements. Citation counts are those of the open scholarly record at harvest. Each title links to the work.

Over time

Verified industry works by year

682021
712022
75.52023
58.52024
672025

2025 is not yet complete: papers published late in the year are still being added to the open record, and coverage may not be equally complete for every university, so compare years with care. A work counts half when its only company author also holds a post at the university, so some totals end in .5.

Clinical trials (reported, not scored)

2 industry-partnered clinical trials

Trials starting 2021 to 2025 in ClinicalTrials.gov in which a company and this university are the sponsor and a collaborator. Names are matched exactly, so a trial registered only under an affiliated hospital's own name is not counted here, and the count can be well below the university's real trial activity. Trials do not enter the score.

Examples:

  • NCT05559697 Study Comparing iNPWT Dressing and Devices Affect on Bioburden Levels and Skin Condition After Seven Days with DeRoyal Industries, Inc., 2024
  • NCT05826834 An Investigation of Ball Rolling Effects on Trigger Points with Mitacs, 2023

Funded partnerships (reported, not scored)

Publicly funded research projects with companies

European Union: 3 Horizon projects with company partners

Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects starting 2021-2025 in which this university and at least one company take part (12 distinct companies). Company partners include: A. Espersen AS, Arctic Knowledge AS, Centre Europeen de Recherche et Deformation Avancee En Calcul Scientif, Catchwise AS, Data Fish Technology Solutions SL, Melbu Systems AS.

  • MarineGuardian Advancing Sustainable Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Conservation in the Atlantic and Arctic Sea basin 2025, 9 companies
  • ArcSolution Arctic Pollution in a One Health perspective - from complex challenges to sustainable solutions 2024, 2 companies
  • EPOC Explaining and Predicting the Ocean Conveyor 2022, 1 company

Shown for context from the public grant registries; they do not enter the score in Edition 1. Comparable open registries of company partners exist for the European Union and the United Kingdom but not yet for most other research systems, and in some countries national research organisations take part on behalf of university laboratories, so these counts are not comparable between countries.

Evidence checked

503 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 364 of 867 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 134 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 79 excluded after hand audit: Matched from the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center (Texas A&M)
  • 36 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 35 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 33 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 11 refresh_university_not_on_work
  • 36 for other reasons: smaller hand-audit findings, and links the current open record no longer supports

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Research Collaboration Index

In the Research Collaboration Index 2026, Memorial University of Newfoundland ranks #546 of 1,195, with Silver standing. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

View the RCI profile →

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