Share of university - private co-publications (international)

Process

Data publication

What share of all scientific publications are university-private co-productions? In this data publication, we show the co-publications of universities and companies as a share of all university publications and for the Netherlands the development over time. This provides insight into the collaborative relationships between universities and private organisations.

In short

  • In this comparison Austria has the highest percentage of university-private co-publications, Norway and Australia the lowest.
  • The share of university-private co-publications in the Netherlands is above the average of OECD and EU-14.
  • The percentages of university-private co-publications in the Netherlands, the OECD- and EU-14, have remained fairly stable between 2009 and 2015, and have been rising since then.
Source: CWTS Leiden Ranking Traditional Edition 2025 (period 2020-2023), edited by the Rathenau Instituut.
Notes: The position of the Netherlands is presented with reference to several benchmark countries. The data 2023 concern all new publications registered in Web of Science over the period 2020-2023.
Source: CWTS Leiden Ranking Traditional Edition, edited by the Rathenau Instituut.
Notes: The development of the percentage of the Dutch university-private co-publications is shown in reference to the average of the OECD countries and the EU-15/EU-14 average. The OECD and EU-15/EU-14 averages are unweighted. In 2020 the United Kingdom left the EU and thereafter, the EU-15 average became the EU-14 average. In addition, OECD-countries with the highest (Iceland) and lowest (Mexico) percentage are displayed (2020-2023). The data concerns all new publications registered in Web of Science over a 4-year period. For example, the data for 2009 concern new publications registered in Web of Science over the period 2006-2009 and the 2023 data concern new publications registered in Web of Science over the period 2020-2023.

Analysis
The share of university-private co-publications in the Netherlands is above the OECD average and the EU-15/EU-14 average. Between 2009 and 2015, the percentage of co-publications remained fairly the same over the years. From 2016 onwards, this percentage slowly rises to 9,6% in 2023. This is slightly higher than countries like Sweden, Switzerland and the UK (each 9,3%) and Germany (9,1%), but lower than Austria (10,9%), Japan (10,4%), and Denmark (10,2%).
 

For an explanation of the used definitions and abbreviations we refer to the webpage Definitions for Science in Figures.

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