Thomson Reuters Names the World’s Top 100 Most Innovative Organizations for 2012

14 Dec 2012

Bangkok--14 Dec--INWIS

Top 100 organizations outperform the S&P 500 by 3 percent in market cap weightedrevenue and add nearly 125,000 jobs

The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters,the world’s leading provider of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, todayannounced its 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators list, honoring 100 corporations and institutionsaround the world that are at the heart of innovation as measured by a series of proprietary patentrelatedmetrics. The full report is available at http://www.top100innovators.com.

Financial analysis of the acknowledged companies gives credence to their significance in that theseorganizations outperformed the S&P 500 by three percent in their market cap weighted averagerevenue (15 percent versus 12 percent). This year’s winners also added 124,214 new jobs overtheir prior year employment figures.

“Innovation is the foundation for economic prosperity and technological advancement,” said David Brown, managing director, Thomson Reuters IP Solutions. “Our Top 100 Global Innovatormethodology demonstrates the insight that can be gleaned from the analysis of patent data andconfirms the fact that companies focused on innovating drive growth and financial success.”

The Thomson Reuters 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators, in alphabetical order, are:

3M Company

Advanced Micro Devices

Alcatel-Lucent

Altera

Analog Devices

Apple

Arkema

AT&T

Avaya

Boeing

Brother Industries

Canon

Chevron

CNRS, The French National Center for Scientific

Research

Commissariat ? l’Energie Atomique

Corning

Delphi

Denso Corporation

Dow Chemical Company

DuPont

Eaton Corporation

EMC Corporation

Emerson

Ericsson

European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company

Exxon Mobil

FANUC

Ford

FUJIFILM

Fujitsu

General Electric

Goodyear Tire & Rubber

Google

Hewlett-Packard

Hitachi

Honda Motor Company

Honeywell International

IBM

IFP Energies Nouvelles

Intel

Jatco

John Deere

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Korea Electronics Technology Institute

Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology

LG Electronics

Lockheed Martin

L'Or?al

LSI Corporation

LSIS

Marvell

Michelin

Micron

Microsoft

Mitsubishi Electric

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Monsanto

Motorola

NEC

Nike

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal

Nitto Denko

NTT

Olympus

Panasonic

Pohang University of Science and Technology

Procter & Gamble

Qualcomm

Raytheon

Renault

Ricoh

Roche

Rockwell Automation

Saint-Gobain

Samsung Electronics

SanDisk

Sandvik

Scania

Seagate

Seiko Epson

Sharp

Shin-Etsu Chemical

Siemens

Snecma

Solvay

Sony

STMicroelectronics

Symantec

TDK

TE Connectivity

Texas Instruments

Thales

Toshiba

Toyota Motor Corporation

U.S. Department of the Army

U.S. Department of the Navy

United Technologies

Valeo

Xerox

Xilinx

Academic Institutions & Government Entities

For the first time, academic institutions and government entities made the list. The two 2012 universityrecipients are both from South Korea: Pohang University of Science and Technology and KoreaAdvanced Institute of Science and Technology. “The addition of South Korean academic institutionsconfirms the role government can play in encouraging innovation, as well as the longer-term potentialfor corporations and academia to collaborate in bringing new ideas to fruition,” said Mr. Brown.

The two government entities that made the list are from the U.S.: the Departments of the Army and theNavy, respectively. Research shows that the U.S. government has invested heavily in innovation, especially as related to matters of national security.

Molecule-Based vs. Technology-Based

The Top 100 methodology, by virtue of its criteria, favors fast-moving, hyper-competitive industries suchas computer hardware and semiconductors, where product lifecycles are short and advancements intechnology are demanded by users. These technology-based industries grew by 18 percent and 29percent, respectively. “That is not to say, however, that other industries are not also innovating,” said

Mr. Brown. “R&D spend in pharmaceutical/chemical-focused industries is among the top in the world.Many organizations in these sectors are extremely innovative, yet they adhere to a different innovationmodel.”

Global Distribution

The U.S. continues to lead in the number of organizations it has on the list, with 47 this year. Asia hasthe next highest, with 32, comprising 25 from Japan and 7 from South Korea. There was a 75 percent increase in representation from South Korea over the prior year; the new entrants included two from academia and two scientific research centers. Europe has 21 honorees, with the largest representation coming from France (13). Year over year there are a larger number of recipients from the U.S. and Asia, and fewer from Europe.

Industry Breakout

The semiconductor and electrical components industry continued to lead in 2012, with 18 representative companies, 29 percent more than in 2011. Computer hardware was the next most prolific industry, with 13 companies in this category. Other notable changes include a 133 percent increase in representation by the automotive industry (from three awardees in 2011 to seven in 2012) and a 40 percent increase in representation from transportation equipment manufacturing.

Methodology

The Thomson Reuters 2012 Top 100 Global Innovator methodology is based on four principle criteria:overall patent volume, patent grant success rate, global reach of the portfolio and patent influence asevidenced by citations. The peer-reviewed methodology was executed using the Thomson ReutersDerwent World Patents Index? (DWPI), Derwent Patents Citations Index?, Quadrilateral PatentIndex?, and Thomson Innovation?, the IP and intelligence collaboration platform. Comparativefinancial analysis was done using the Thomson Reuters Advanced Analytics for Deal-Making platform.

For more information on the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovator program and to download thefull report, go to http://www.top100innovators.com.

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 60,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. For more information, go to www.thomsonreuters.com. -KP-

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