Taiwan’s Hon Hai, HTC, Quanta Computer, and ITRI named Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators

　Clarivate Analytics released the Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators 2020 list, identifying the world’s most innovative organizations.  Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., aka Foxconn, HTC Corporation, Quanta Computer, and the ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) from Taiwan have won the recognition to be listed among the top 100 global innovators for 2020.  With the highest number of four entities named on the list, Taiwan ties for the 4^th place with Germany among the countries/regions listed.  

　

　It is the fourth time and the third consecutive year that ITRI has won a place on the list to stand out with its excellent performance in patent grant rate and influence this year as usual, while Hon Hai and Quanta have been exhibiting their ambitions in deploying their patented technologies on the global market.  By sustaining its achievements in the criterion of patent influence, HTC broke into the top 100 global innovators list by making progress in internationalization.  

　The selected top 100 global innovators of 2020 come from three continents and fourteen countries/regions.  The US topped the list with 39 organizations recognized as the top 100 global innovators, followed by Japan with 32, and the named winners from the US and Japan comprised almost three-quarters of this year’s top 100 innovators.  For industry section representation, hardware and electronics industries took the lead with 38 organizations named on the list, surpassing the manufacturing and medical industries with 16 and the telecoms and software industries with 8 each.   (February 2020)  

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