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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Université de Rouen Normandie

France · Europe · Silver

#413World rank of 1,038
56.3ICI scoreout of 100
#18National rank, of 44 in France
#178Regional rank, of 388 in Europe
489Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
210Company groups worked with (76 on two or more works)

Université de Rouen Normandie is ranked #413 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is co-creation (71): 489 verified industry works against about 391 expected for its mix of fields. It is held back most by breadth (36): partners concentrated in a few research fields; and by scale (46): a network of 76 company groups on two or more joint works.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #614 of 1,195 · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
71

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 489 verified works against about 391 expected for its fields (1.25 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
70

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 21 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
46

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. 76 company groups on two or more joint works; 21 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
36

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 (56.3) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 413 of 1,038 overall; 18 of 44 in France; 178 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

4.6%of its 10,710 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
1.25Industry co-authorship rate: 1.25 times what its mix of research fields would predict (489 verified works; about 391 expected)
21sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In France

18 of 44 ranked universities in France

  1. #16 Université de Rennes world #358, score 59.3
  2. #17 Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines world #403, score 56.6
  3. #18 Université de Rouen Normandie world #413, score 56.3
  4. #19 Université de Strasbourg world #420, score 56.0
  5. #20 Université Clermont Auvergne world #431, score 55.0

All ranked universities →   Europe: 178 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.

Strongest sector positions

#279 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics105 verified works in the sector
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
105#279 of 638
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
26#355 of 481
Chemicals, Process and Resources
22.5#234 of 237
Clean Energy Transition
12.5under 20 works
Medical Technology and Digital Health
12under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
9.5under 20 works
Automotive and Mobility
7under 20 works
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
5.5under 20 works
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
5under 20 works
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
5under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
3.5under 20 works
Aerospace and Aviation
2under 20 works
Batteries and Energy Storage
2under 20 works
Next-Generation Communications
1.5under 20 works
Built Environment and Infrastructure
1under 20 works
Quantum Technologies
1under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
267counted in the overall index

222 of its 489 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 Rouen Normandie co-authored verified work with 210 company groups, consortium papers aside: 76 of them on two or more works, and 21 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 210 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
RocheSwitzerlandMedicine83.55 of 5
TotalFranceEngineering33.55 of 5
SanofiFranceMedicine22.55 of 5
SafranFranceEngineering12.54 of 5
Edwards LifesciencesUnited StatesMedicine113 of 5
PfizerUnited StatesMedicine105 of 5
MedtronicIrelandMedicine105 of 5
ServierFranceMedicine104 of 5
SiemensGermanyEngineering9.55 of 5
EurofinsFranceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology94 of 5
Johnson & JohnsonUnited StatesMedicine8.55 of 5
AstraZenecaUnited KingdomMedicine83 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

1032021
852022
1012023
1132024
872025

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 (39 distinct companies). Most frequent: Ansaldo Nucleare SpA, Adaptam Therapeutics SL, Active Fiber Systems GmbH, Alleima Emea AB, Alleima Tube AB, Amen New Technologies I.k.e..

  • EUROfusion Implementation of activities described in the Roadmap to Fusion during Horizon Europe through a joint programme of the members of the... 2021, 12 companies
  • INNUMAT Innovative Structural Materials for Fission and Fusion 2022, 9 companies
  • MIMOSA 4D Microscopy of biological materials by short pulse terahertz sources (MIMOSA) 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.

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 (Électricité de France, Safran Electronics) and 9 are funded partners not yet visible in it. About 28% 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

719 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 800 of 1,519 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 491 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 62 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 61 not an industry organisation
  • 59 refresh_university_not_on_work
  • 49 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 44 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 34 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 Rouen Normandie ranks #614 of 1,195. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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