Top 50 corporate institutions by number of academic collaborations
Corporate institutions ranked by the number of bilateral partnerships they engaged in with academic institutions to co-author papers published in the Nature Index between 2012 and 2016.
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| 1 | BGI | China | 642 |
| 2 | Amgen Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 513 |
| 3 | GlaxoSmithKline plc. (GSK) | United Kingdom (UK) | 494 |
| 4 | Leidos Holdings, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 486 |
| 5 | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | Switzerland | 467 |
| 6 | Illumina, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 412 |
| 7 | Novartis International AG | Switzerland | 399 |
| 8 | Eureka Scientific, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 381 |
| 8 | IBM Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 381 |
| 9 | Merck & Co., Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 356 |
| 9 | Pfizer Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 356 |
| 10 | Génome Québec | Canada | 354 |
| 11 | AstraZeneca plc | United Kingdom (UK) | 351 |
| 12 | Fimlab Laboratories Ltd. | Finland | 340 |
| 13 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 333 |
| 14 | Life & Brain GmbH | Germany | 321 |
| 15 | SYNLAB International GmbH | Germany | 300 |
| 16 | Eli Lilly and Company | United States of America (USA) | 296 |
| 17 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 278 |
| 17 | NYCB Real-Time Computing Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 278 |
| 18 | Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA | Germany | 275 |
| 19 | Sanofi | France | 269 |
| 20 | Johnson & Johnson | United States of America (USA) | 267 |
| 21 | Jacobs Technology Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 261 |
| 22 | Techint Group | Italy | 254 |
| 23 | Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) | Brazil | 247 |
| 24 | Portuguese Oncology Institute (IPO) | Portugal | 243 |
| 25 | Koninklijke DSM N.V. (DSM) | Netherlands | 241 |
| 26 | Samsung Group | South Korea | 236 |
| 27 | Bayer AG | Germany | 234 |
| 28 | Biogen Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 233 |
| 29 | 23andMe, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 232 |
| 29 | Adler Planetarium | United States of America (USA) | 232 |
| 30 | Thales S.A. | France | 216 |
| 31 | Microsoft Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 212 |
| 32 | USC-Office of Population Studies Foundation, Inc. | Philippines | 208 |
| 33 | Formosa Plastics Group | Taiwan | 198 |
| 34 | Bruker Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 197 |
| 35 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 193 |
| 36 | Intesa Sanpaolo | Italy | 192 |
| 37 | GNS Science | New Zealand | 191 |
| 38 | International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) | United States of America (USA) | 189 |
| 39 | Novo Nordisk A/S | Denmark | 181 |
| 40 | Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) | United States of America (USA) | 179 |
| 41 | Agilent Technologies, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 174 |
| 42 | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited | Japan | 168 |
| 43 | Information Management Services, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 159 |
| 44 | PerkinElmer, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 151 |
| 45 | European Spallation Source ESS AB | Sweden | 149 |
| 45 | Westat, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 149 |
| 46 | Trium Analysis Online GmbH | Germany | 147 |
| 47 | Uni Research Ltd. | Norway | 144 |
| 48 | ClinPhenomics GmbH & Co. KG | Germany | 141 |
| 49 | GRANTECAN S.A. | Spain | 139 |
| 49 | Raytheon Company | United States of America (USA) | 139 |
| 50 | Adorial Limited | United Kingdom (UK) | 137 |