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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

Université de Strasbourg

France · Europe · Silver

#420World rank of 1,038
56.0ICI scoreout of 100
#19National rank, of 44 in France
#180Regional rank, of 388 in Europe
721.5Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
390Company groups worked with (117 on two or more works)

Université de Strasbourg is ranked #420 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is scale (66): a network of 117 company groups on two or more joint works. It is held back most by co-creation (44): 721.5 verified industry works against about 810 expected for its mix of fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #227 of 1,195, Gold standing · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
44

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 721.5 verified works against about 810 expected for its fields (0.89 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
54

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 34 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
66

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. 117 company groups on two or more joint works; 34 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
61

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 (56.0) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 420 of 1,038 overall; 19 of 44 in France; 180 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

2.9%of its 24,701 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.89Industry co-authorship rate: 0.89 times what its mix of research fields would predict (721.5 verified works; about 810 expected)
34sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In France

19 of 44 ranked universities in France

  1. #17 Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines world #403, score 56.6
  2. #18 Université de Rouen Normandie world #413, score 56.3
  3. #19 Université de Strasbourg world #420, score 56.0
  4. #20 Université Clermont Auvergne world #431, score 55.0
  5. #21 Normandie Université world #435, score 54.5

All ranked universities →   Europe: 180 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

#278 of 481Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology37 verified works in the sector
#373 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics71 verified works in the sector
#193 of 220Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies22.5 verified works in the sector
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
71#373 of 638
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
37#278 of 481
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
22.5#193 of 220
Chemicals, Process and Resources
22#212 of 237
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
20#359 of 373
Medical Technology and Digital Health
18.5under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
10under 20 works
Clean Energy Transition
10under 20 works
Batteries and Energy Storage
7under 20 works
Built Environment and Infrastructure
7under 20 works
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
4under 20 works
Next-Generation Communications
3under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
2.5under 20 works
Aerospace and Aviation
2under 20 works
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
1under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
1under 20 works
Space and Satellite Technology
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
481counted in the overall index

240.5 of its 721.5 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 Strasbourg co-authored verified work with 390 company groups, consortium papers aside: 117 of them on two or more works, and 34 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 390 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
RocheSwitzerlandMedicine395 of 5
NovartisSwitzerlandMedicine25.55 of 5
AstraZenecaUnited KingdomMedicine255 of 5
Boehringer IngelheimGermanyMedicine24.55 of 5
SanofiFranceMedicine195 of 5
TotalFranceEngineering18.55 of 5
Johnson & JohnsonUnited StatesMedicine125 of 5
Électricité de FranceSTATE-OWNEDFranceEngineering105 of 5
BASFGermanyMaterials Science104 of 5
GenopoleFranceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9.55 of 5
Merck KGaAGermanyMedicine94 of 5
PfizerUnited StatesMedicine95 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

148.52021
1452022
136.52023
1362024
155.52025

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: 54 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 (208 distinct companies). Most frequent: Accelopment Schweiz AG, Bedimensional SpA, Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co KG, Fluxim AG, Megware Computer Vertrieb und Service GmbH, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV.

  • 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
  • Geo-INQUIRE Geosphere INfrastructures for QUestions into Integrated REsearch 2022, 1 company
  • DT-GEO A Digital Twin for GEOphysical extremes 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, 17 also appear in this university's verified co-authorship record (BeDimensional, SOPREMA, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Sanofi [group I3018075036], BASF [group I4210107087]) and 58 are funded partners not yet visible in it. About 36% 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

1,020 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 980 of 2,000 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 583 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 108 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 68 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 55 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 30 not an industry organisation
  • 21 excluded after hand audit: Matched almost only from the Flatiron Institute, a non-profit research institute
  • 115 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 Strasbourg ranks #227 of 1,195, with Gold standing. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

View the RCI profile →

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