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ITRI Named a Top 100 Global Innovator for Fifth Time
ITRI is named a Top 100 Global Innovator 2021 by Clarivate, making it a five-time winner for this accolade.
ITRI is glad to be recognized as a Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator once again in 2021. It is the fourth consecutive year and fifth time that ITRI has won this honor since 2015, making it the most awarded research institution ever in Asia. Other honorees on this year’s list include renowned international companies and institutions, such as Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Fraunhofer, and the University of California.
The Top 100 Global Innovators report was released by Clarivate™, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation. The report has long used patent data analysis to evaluate an organization's innovation capacity, market placement strategy, and the influence of R&D technology. This year marks the 10th year of the report, which has become a leading indicator in global R&D innovation.
“We are very pleased to see that ITRI has been on our Top 100 Innovators list for five times and four consecutive years. This has demonstrated ITRI’s increasing capabilities in R&D and bigger impact on industrial innovation. This also well reflected ITRI’s efforts in globalization. In today’s fast-changing world, the world’s innovators represent a resource to society and are more critical than ever before,” said Nathan Fan, General Manager of Clarivate in Taiwan.
ITRI President Edwin Liu commented that being repeatedly recognized as a Top 100 Global Innovator demonstrates the success of ITRI’s forward-looking R&D, efforts in technology commercialization, and deployment of high-value patent portfolios. This honor, he stressed, also showcases ITRI’s world-leading capability in intellectual property (IP) management and how the breadth and depth of its multidisciplinary R&D has made a global impact. “ITRI will keep integrating cross-sector resources and focusing on market-oriented R&D to meet the industry’s needs while developing internationally impactful IP strategies,” added Dr. Liu.
According to Dr. Liu, ITRI continues to promote a comprehensive patent analysis and deployment mechanism to assist in industrial innovation and transformation. With its 2030 Technology Strategy & Roadmap, the Institute will enhance its technology development in the three major application domains, namely Smart Living, Quality Health, and Sustainable Environment, while strengthening Intelligentization Enabling Technologies to support these three domains. The aim is to help industries increase their competitiveness and create new value.
Recently ITRI has also been dedicated to facilitating the link between the capital and technology markets, and has worked with the Small & Medium Enterprise Credit Guarantee Fund of Taiwan and 26 key financial institutions to launch the Technology Value-Added Financing Guarantee Scheme. This will boost IP value and allow Taiwan’s technology innovators to connect with the financial system and remain competitive when tapping into global markets.