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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Université de Bourgogne

France · Europe

#618World rank of 1,038
44.1ICI scoreout of 100
#30National rank, of 44 in France
#255Regional rank, of 388 in Europe
264.5Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
149Company groups worked with (49 on two or more works)

Université de Bourgogne is ranked #618 of 1,038. Its strongest pillar is breadth (73): partners spread across many research fields. It is held back most by scale (26): a network of 49 company groups on two or more joint works; and by durability (23): 9 of its company groups are sustained partners (five or more joint works in three or more of the five years).

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #663 of 1,195 · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
57

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 264.5 verified works against about 245 expected for its fields (1.08 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
23

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 9 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
26

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. 49 company groups on two or more joint works; 9 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
73

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 (44.1) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 618 of 1,038 overall; 30 of 44 in France; 255 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

3.5%of its 7,652 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
1.08Industry co-authorship rate: 1.08 times what its mix of research fields would predict (264.5 verified works; about 245 expected)
9sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In France

30 of 44 ranked universities in France

  1. #28 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon world #534, score 48.8
  2. #29 Université de Caen Normandie world #546, score 48.3
  3. #30 Université de Bourgogne world #618, score 44.1
  4. #31 Université Gustave Eiffel world #639, score 42.9
  5. #32 Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux world #654, score 42.3

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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

#503 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics38 verified works in the sector
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
38#503 of 638
Agriculture and Food Technology
14under 20 works
Medical Technology and Digital Health
9under 20 works
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
8.5under 20 works
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
4under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
4under 20 works
Next-Generation Communications
3under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
3under 20 works
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
2under 20 works
Chemicals, Process and Resources
1.5under 20 works
Automotive and Mobility
1.5under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
1under 20 works
Cybersecurity and Digital Trust
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
174counted in the overall index

90.5 of its 264.5 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

Université de Bourgogne co-authored verified work with 149 company groups, consortium papers aside: 49 of them on two or more works, and 9 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 149 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
RocheSwitzerlandMedicine245 of 5
RenecoUnited Arab EmiratesEnvironmental Science85 of 5
OrangeFranceEngineering73 of 5
SanofiFranceMedicine63 of 5
IQVIAUnited StatesMedicine65 of 5
BayerGermanyMedicine65 of 5
AnsysUnited StatesEngineering52 of 5
SofralabFranceAgricultural and Biological Sciences53 of 5
CentogeneGermanyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology53 of 5
TotalFranceEngineering53 of 5
SafranFranceEngineering43 of 5
Ambry GeneticsUnited StatesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology44 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

Over time

Verified industry works by year

582021
54.52022
582023
572024
372025

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 (1 distinct companies). Company partners include: Brest'aim SA.

  • FREETOACT FRom ExpEctation TO ACTion 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

324 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 347 of 671 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 219 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 37 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 19 not an industry organisation
  • 15 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 14 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 9 excluded after hand audit: Nofima is a state-owned research institute; research and technology organisations are not counted as industry
  • 34 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, Université de Bourgogne ranks #663 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.