KIT Excels in Industry Collaboration

Industry Collaboration Index 2026: Tenth Place in Germany and Top Rankings Worldwide in Key Future-Oriented Fields
Visitors at the KIT booth at the Hannover Messe, a platform for industrial technologies. Sandra Göttisheim, KIT
The performance in the Industry Collaboration Index reflects KIT’s strong relationships with industry.

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ranks tenth in Germany and 150th worldwide among 1,038 universities in the inaugural Industry Collaboration Index. The results highlight the strength of KIT’s collaborations with industry: Between 2021 and 2025, KIT and its corporate partners produced 1,235 verified scientific publications. KIT published at least two papers with 214 corporate groups, while 56 long-term partnerships demonstrate the continuity of these collaborations.

Outstanding Performance in “Batteries and Energy Storage”

KIT achieved particularly strong international rankings in the sector categories “Batteries and Energy Storage” (13th place), “Clean Energy Transition” (25th place), and “Software, Cloud, and Data” (31st place). Overall, KIT is represented in 13 of the 20 published sector rankings. These results underscore the importance of collaboration with industry in key technological fields shaping the future.

About the Ranking

The Industry Collaboration Index, published by Global Research Partnerships, evaluates university-industry collaboration based on jointly authored publications from 2021 to 2025. The assessment considers factors such as collaborative research activities, the longevity of partnerships, and the disciplinary diversity of industry partners.

eja, October 16, 2026