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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Normandie Université

France · Europe · Silver

★ Sector Awards 2026. Finalist: the Chemicals, Process and Resources Award (with Total; Carlos Afonso and Benoît Paupy).

#435World rank of 1,038
54.5ICI scoreout of 100
#21National rank, of 44 in France
#185Regional rank, of 388 in Europe
399Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
193Company groups worked with (71 on two or more works)

Normandie Université is ranked #435 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is co-creation (66): 399 verified industry works against about 338 expected for its mix of fields. It is held back most by scale (41): a network of 71 company groups on two or more joint works.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #362 of 1,195, Silver standing · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
66

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 399 verified works against about 338 expected for its fields (1.18 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
55

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
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. 71 company groups on two or more joint works; 18 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
57

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 (54.5) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 435 of 1,038 overall; 21 of 44 in France; 185 of 388 in Europe. 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

4.7%of its 8,549 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
1.18Industry co-authorship rate: 1.18 times what its mix of research fields would predict (399 verified works; about 338 expected)
18sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In France

21 of 44 ranked universities in France

  1. #19 Université de Strasbourg world #420, score 56.0
  2. #20 Université Clermont Auvergne world #431, score 55.0
  3. #21 Normandie Université world #435, score 54.5
  4. #22 Université Côte d'Azur world #437, score 54.4
  5. #23 Université de Bretagne Occidentale world #451, score 53.8

All ranked universities →   Europe: 185 of 388 →

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

#263 of 481Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology40.5 verified works in the sector
#186 of 237Chemicals, Process and Resources37 verified works in the sector
#540 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics28 verified works in the sector
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
40.5#263 of 481
Chemicals, Process and Resources
37#186 of 237
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
28#540 of 638
Clean Energy Transition
15.5under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
9.5under 20 works
Automotive and Mobility
7under 20 works
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
6under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
6under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
5.5under 20 works
Batteries and Energy Storage
5under 20 works
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
4under 20 works
Next-Generation Communications
4under 20 works
Aerospace and Aviation
3under 20 works
Built Environment and Infrastructure
2under 20 works
Medical Technology and Digital Health
2under 20 works
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
1under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
222counted in the overall index

177 of its 399 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

Normandie Université co-authored verified work with 193 company groups, consortium papers aside: 71 of them on two or more works, and 18 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 193 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
TotalFranceEngineering47.55 of 5
RocheSwitzerlandMedicine25.55 of 5
SafranFranceEngineering21.55 of 5
SanofiFranceMedicine11.54 of 5
SiemensGermanyEngineering9.54 of 5
IxicoUnited KingdomMedicine93 of 5
ThalesFranceEngineering95 of 5
PfizerUnited StatesMedicine94 of 5
Edwards LifesciencesUnited StatesMedicine84 of 5
JEOLJapanMaterials Science74 of 5
IPPMedGermanyMedicine74 of 5
ThemisIndiaSocial Sciences74 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

89.52021
852022
85.52023
822024
572025

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.

Evidence checked

576 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 552 of 1,128 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 401 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 32 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 32 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 23 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 21 not an industry organisation
  • 9 excluded after hand audit: ALBA Synchrotron is a publicly owned research facility
  • 34 for other reasons: smaller hand-audit findings, and links the current open record no longer supports

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The other GRP index

Research Collaboration Index

In the Research Collaboration Index 2026, Normandie Université ranks #362 of 1,195, with Silver standing. 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.