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Industry Collaboration Index 2026 · University profile

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Italy · Europe · Silver

#516World rank of 1,038
50.4ICI scoreout of 100
#20National rank, of 40 in Italy
#212Regional rank, of 388 in Europe
661.5Verified industry works, 2021 to 2025
305Company groups worked with (112 on two or more works)

University of Rome Tor Vergata is ranked #516 of 1,038, with Silver standing. Its strongest pillar is scale (64): a network of 112 company groups on two or more joint works. It is held back most by co-creation (38): 661.5 verified industry works against about 806 expected for its mix of fields; and by breadth (41): partners concentrated in a few research fields.

Research Collaboration Index 2026: #314 of 1,195, Silver standing · View the RCI profile →

Why this position

Four pillars, as percentiles

Co-creation30% of the score
38

How often it co-authors with companies, compared with what its own mix of research fields would predict; size makes no difference. 661.5 verified works against about 806 expected for its fields (0.82 times the expected rate).

Durability20% of the score
58

How much of its industry work sits in sustained partnerships with the same company group. 29 sustained partnerships: five or more joint works in three or more of the five years.

Scale30% of the score
64

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. 112 company groups on two or more joint works; 29 sustained partnerships.

Breadth20% of the score
41

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 (50.4) is the weighted average of the four percentiles. Rank 516 of 1,038 overall; 20 of 40 in Italy; 212 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 19,974 research works in 2021 to 2025 were co-authored with a verified company
0.82Industry co-authorship rate: 0.82 times what its mix of research fields would predict (661.5 verified works; about 806 expected)
29sustained partnerships: the same company group on five or more joint works in three or more of the five years

In Italy

20 of 40 ranked universities in Italy

  1. #18 University of Catania world #496, score 51.1
  2. #19 University of Trento world #500, score 51.0
  3. #20 University of Rome Tor Vergata world #516, score 50.4
  4. #21 University of Palermo world #528, score 49.3
  5. #22 University of Bari Aldo Moro world #537, score 48.7

All ranked universities →   Europe: 212 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

#309 of 638Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics90 verified works in the sector
Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics
90#309 of 638
Clean Energy Transition
32.5#196 of 295
Medical Technology and Digital Health
22#318 of 323
Next-Generation Communications
21#177 of 188
Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
20#479 of 481
Biotechnology and Advanced Therapies
12under 20 works
Climate, Environment and Sustainability
9.5under 20 works
Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
8under 20 works
Automotive and Mobility
6under 20 works
Semiconductors and Microelectronics
6under 20 works
Space and Satellite Technology
5.5under 20 works
Agriculture and Food Technology
4under 20 works
Artificial Intelligence
3.5under 20 works
Software, Cloud and Data
3.5under 20 works
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
3ranking withheld (under 10 eligible)
Built Environment and Infrastructure
1.5under 20 works
Chemicals, Process and Resources
1under 20 works
Quantum Technologies
1under 20 works
Not in any of the 21 sectors
411counted in the overall index

250.5 of its 661.5 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

University of Rome Tor Vergata co-authored verified work with 305 company groups, consortium papers aside: 112 of them on two or more works, and 29 as sustained partners.

The largest 12 of its 305 company groups, by joint works

Company groupBased inCompany's main research fieldJoint worksYears with a joint work
Munich Leukemia LaboratoryGermanyMedicine335 of 5
AstraZenecaUnited KingdomMedicine245 of 5
NovartisSwitzerlandMedicine235 of 5
RocheSwitzerlandMedicine19.55 of 5
PfizerUnited StatesMedicine194 of 5
AbbVieUnited StatesMedicine165 of 5
Johnson & JohnsonUnited StatesMedicine165 of 5
ThalesFranceEngineering154 of 5
Gilead SciencesUnited StatesMedicine134 of 5
ATS SardegnaItalyMedicine114 of 5
ChiesiItalyMedicine105 of 5
BeDimensionalItalyEngineering94 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

140.52021
1452022
1212023
127.52024
127.52025

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: 60 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 (264 distinct companies). Most frequent: Dyenamo AB, Saule Spolka Akcyjna, Solaronix SA, Beta Technology Limited, Bedimensional SpA, Dynamic Biosensors GmbH.

  • 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
  • COP-PILOT Collaborative Open Platform for PILOTing services across energing smart IoT and Edge computing environments 2025, 27 companies
  • SHIFT Sustainable tecHnologies enablIng Future Telecommunication applications 2022, 22 companies

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, 13 also appear in this university's verified co-authorship record (BeDimensional, Beta Technology Limited, STMicroelectronics, Eni, Électricité de France, Merck KGaA) and 59 are funded partners not yet visible in it. About 29% 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

864 verified company links

Each counted link (one work, this university and one company) was confirmed against the affiliation text its author wrote; 984 of 1,848 candidate links were set aside.

Why links were set aside
  • 563 company name not written in the author's affiliation
  • 110 a place or common word that failed its stricter rule
  • 87 ordinary-word name without a company suffix
  • 62 part of a university or public institute's own unit
  • 24 excluded after hand audit: CEINGE is a non-profit research consortium
  • 16 excluded after hand audit: Matched from Italian department and CNR institute names
  • 122 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, University of Rome Tor Vergata ranks #314 of 1,195, with Silver standing. It measures the whole research network, not only industry.

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