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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Université de Caen Normandie

France · Europe · Silver

#546World rank of 1,038
48.3ICI scoreout of 100
#29National rank, of 44 in France
#225Regional rank, of 388 in Europe
378Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
179Company groups worked with (65 on two or more works)

Université de Caen Normandie is ranked #546 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is durability (62): 19 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 scale (40): a network of 65 company groups on two or more joint works; and by breadth (46): partners concentrated in a few research fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #608 of 1,195 · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
50

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 378 verified works against about 391 expected for its fields (0.97 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
62

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 19 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
40

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. 65 company groups on two or more joint works; 19 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
46

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 (48.3) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 546 of 1,038 overall; 29 of 44 in France; 225 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

3.3%of its 11,458 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.97Industry co-authorship rate: 0.97 times what its mix of research fields would predict (378 verified works; about 391 expected)
19sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In France

29 of 44 ranked universities in France

  1. #27 Université de Poitiers world #509, score 50.8
  2. #28 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon world #534, score 48.8
  3. #29 Université de Caen Normandie world #546, score 48.3
  4. #30 Université de Bourgogne world #618, score 44.1
  5. #31 Université Gustave Eiffel world #639, score 42.9

All ranked universities →   Europe: 225 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

#391 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics73 verified works in the sector
#393 of 481Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology24.5 verified works in the sector
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
73#391 of 638
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
24.5#393 of 481
Chemicals, Process and Resources
18.5under 20 works
Medical Technology and Digital Health
12under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
8under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
7under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
5under 20 works
Batteries and Energy Storage
4under 20 works
Clean Energy Transition
4under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
3under 20 works
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
3under 20 works
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
1under 20 works
Aerospace and Aviation
1under 20 works
Built Environment and Infrastructure
1under 20 works
Next-Generation Communications
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
212counted in the overall index

166 of its 378 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 Caen Normandie co-authored verified work with 179 company groups, consortium papers aside: 65 of them on two or more works, and 19 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 179 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
RocheSwitzerlandMedicine575 of 5
TotalFranceEngineering174 of 5
TakedaJapanChemistry144 of 5
IxicoUnited KingdomMedicine124 of 5
Bristol-Myers SquibbUnited StatesMedicine105 of 5
PfizerUnited StatesMedicine84 of 5
MedtronicIrelandMedicine85 of 5
IQVIAUnited StatesMedicine84 of 5
SiemensGermanyEngineering83 of 5
SanofiFranceMedicine73 of 5
AstraZenecaUnited KingdomMedicine73 of 5
ThalesFranceEngineering74 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

68.52021
812022
752023
82.52024
712025

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: 10 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 (33 distinct companies). Most frequent: Euroquality SAS, NRG Pallas BV, Airsense Analytics GmbH, Atlas Neuroengineering Bvba, Analog Devices International Unlimited Company, Boston Scientific Limited.

  • PIANOFORTE Partnership for european research in radiation protection and detection of ionising radiation : towards a safer use and improved protection... 2022, 3 companies
  • REWRITE REWilding and Restoration of InterTidal sediment Ecosystems for carbon sequestration, climate adaptation and biodiversity support 2023, 2 companies
  • METHASOL International cooperation for selective conversion of CO2 into METHAnol under SOLar light 2021, 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.

Funded and co-publishing. Of the funded company partners that match an ICI company group, 2 also appear in this university's verified co-authorship record (Boston Scientific, Électricité de France) and 7 are funded partners not yet visible in it. About 27% of funded company names could be matched to a company group; the rest are counted, not guessed. Sources: UKRI Gateway to Research harvested 4 Oct 2026; CORDIS bulk files of 2026-10-12 (latest record update 2026-06-10). Funded partnerships cover UK (UKRI Gateway to Research) and EU (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, CORDIS) projects starting 2021 to 2025 only. They are reported, never scored, and a funder record outside these two sources is not visible here.

Evidence checked

509 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 672 of 1,181 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 487 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 42 not an industry organisation
  • 39 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 31 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 28 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 8 excluded after hand audit: Matched from street names (Ernst-Otto-Fischer-Strasse)
  • 37 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, Université de Caen Normandie ranks #608 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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