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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

National Tsing Hua University

Taiwan · Asia-Pacific

★ Sector Awards 2026. Finalist: the Software, Cloud and Data Award (with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company; Ren-Shuo Liu and Win-San Khwa).

#648World rank of 1,038
42.5ICI scoreout of 100
#3National rank, of 12 in Taiwan
#192Regional rank, of 343 in Asia-Pacific
389Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
159Company groups worked with (47 on two or more works)

National Tsing Hua University is ranked #648 of 1,038. Its strongest pillar is durability (70): 11 of its company groups are sustained partners (five or more joint works in three or more of the five years). It is held back most by breadth (10): partners concentrated in a few research fields; and by scale (41): a network of 47 company groups on two or more joint works.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #764 of 1,195 · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
48

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 389 verified works against about 419 expected for its fields (0.93 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
70

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 11 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
41

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. 47 company groups on two or more joint works; 11 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
10

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 (42.5) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 648 of 1,038 overall; 3 of 12 in Taiwan; 192 of 343 in Asia-Pacific. 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

3.7%of its 10,631 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.93Industry co-authorship rate: 0.93 times what its mix of research fields would predict (389 verified works; about 419 expected)
11sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In Taiwan

3 of 12 ranked universities in Taiwan

  1. #1 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University world #346, score 60.0
  2. #2 National Taiwan University world #399, score 56.9
  3. #3 National Tsing Hua University world #648, score 42.5
  4. #4 National Cheng Kung University world #728, score 38.0
  5. #5 Chang Gung University world #787, score 34.0

All ranked universities →   Asia-Pacific: 192 of 343 →

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.

Strongest sector positions

#38 of 109Semiconductors and Microelectronics49.5 verified works in the sector
#224 of 481Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology74.5 verified works in the sector
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
74.5#224 of 481
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
49.5#38 of 109
Software, Cloud and Data
34#121 of 167
Artificial Intelligence
32.5#154 of 292
Clean Energy Transition
13.5under 20 works
Next-Generation Communications
12under 20 works
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
11under 20 works
Batteries and Energy Storage
6under 20 works
Medical Technology and Digital Health
4under 20 works
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
3under 20 works
Automotive and Mobility
3under 20 works
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
3under 20 works
Quantum Technologies
3under 20 works
Built Environment and Infrastructure
2under 20 works
Cybersecurity and Digital Trust
2under 20 works
Chemicals, Process and Resources
1.5under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
134.5counted in the overall index

254.5 of its 389 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

National Tsing Hua University co-authored verified work with 159 company groups, consortium papers aside: 47 of them on two or more works, and 11 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 159 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing CompanyTaiwanEngineering1145 of 5
MediaTekTaiwanEngineering155 of 5
NvidiaUnited StatesComputer Science134 of 5
China SteelTaiwanEngineering12.54 of 5
SpectrochipTaiwanNot recorded104 of 5
NEAT BiotechTaiwanNot recorded72 of 5
Advanced Semiconductor EngineeringTaiwanEngineering73 of 5
United MicroelectronicsTaiwanEngineering74 of 5
Chunghwa TelecomTaiwanEngineering73 of 5
Novatek MicroelectronicsTaiwanEngineering75 of 5
IntelUnited StatesEngineering64 of 5
TencentChinaComputer Science53 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

722021
652022
742023
74.52024
103.52025

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.

Funded partnerships (reported, not scored)

Publicly funded research projects with companies

European Union: 1 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 (3 distinct companies). Company partners include: Aircision BV, Turing Intelligence Technology Limited.

  • DIOR DIOR: Deep Intelligent Optical and Radio Communication Networks 2021, 3 companies

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

450 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 275 of 725 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 157 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 35 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 23 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 18 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 12 excluded after hand audit: Matched almost only from the Flatiron Institute, a non-profit research institute
  • 9 excluded after hand audit: Canadian Light Source is a national research facility
  • 21 for other reasons: smaller hand-audit findings, and links the current open record no longer supports

If a partner is missing or should not be here, send the evidence; corrections are free and reviewed against the public record.

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The other GRP index

Research Collaboration Index

In the Research Collaboration Index 2026, National Tsing Hua University ranks #764 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

View the RCI profile →

Something wrong? Every figure comes from the public record and can be checked. If a partner is missing or should not be there, tell us and we will review it with the evidence. The 2027 edition will be calculated with the same published methodology. The window for universities to submit data for it is open now: submit data for the 2027 edition. The index is free, public and independent. No commercial relationship with any university or company changes any position, and no one can pay to be included, excluded or moved.