Thomas Reuters top 100 Global Innovators..

Thomson Reuters released its list of the 100 most innovative organisations in the world..
No Indian organisation could secure a position in this prestigious list..


The program analyzed patent data and similar metrics to identify the companies that lead the world in the innovation activity..
These are the institutions whose innovations brought about a revolution in the society and in the field of user-friendly technology..


The companies in alphabetical order:


3M Company
ABB, Ltd.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Airbus 
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcon, Inc.
Alfa Laval 
Analog Devices, Inc.
Apple, Inc.
Applied Materials, Inc.
Arkema 
ASML
Atlas Copco
Avaya, Inc.
BASF
Bayer 
Boeing
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Brother Industries, Ltd.
Canon, Inc.
Cheil Industries, Inc.
Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
CNRS, The French National Center for Scientific Research
Commissariat à l’Énergie  Atomique 
Corning Incorporated
Daikin Industries, Ltd.
Denso Corporation
Dow Chemical Company
DuPont
Eaton Corporation
Ericsson
Ethicon, Inc.
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Fanuc, Ltd.
Fujitsu Limited
General Electric Company
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
Harris Corporation
Hewlett-Packard Company
Hilti Corporation
Hitachi, Ltd.
Hoffmann La Roche
Honda Motor Company, Ltd.
Honeywell International, Inc.
IFP Energies Nouvelles
Intel Corporation
International Business Machines Corporation
Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd.
Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
LG Electronics, Inc.
L'Oréal 
LS Industrial Systems 
LSI Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Motorola, Inc.
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
NCR Corporation
NEC Corporation
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Nitto Denko Corporation
Olympus Optical
Panasonic Corporation
Philips 
Procter & Gamble Company
Qualcomm Incorporated
Raytheon Company
Rhodia Operations
Rockwell Automation, Inc.
Rohm and Haas Company
Rosemount, Inc.
Royal Dutch Shell 
Saint-Gobain
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
SanDisk Corporation
Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
Scania
Seiko Epson Corporation
Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
Siemens 
Snecma
Societe De Technologie Michelin
Sony Corporation
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
Symantec Corporation
Synopsys, Inc.
TE Connectivity
Tetra Laval 
Toshiba Corporation
Toyota Motor Corporation
Unilever
UOP
Volvo
Wacker Chemie 
Xerox Corporation
Yamaha Corporation

Mobile phone giants like Nokia and Research in Motion(Blackberry), however were not good enough to secure a top-100 position among the innovators..

The Thomson Reuters 2011 top 100 global innovator methodology is based on 4 principle criteria:  patent approval success rate, global reach of patent portfolio, patent influence in literature citations and overall patent volume..

ANALYSIS:

40% from United States of America..

27% from Japan..

4% each from from South Korea, Netherlands and Germany..

11% from France..

6% from Sweden..

3% from Switzerland..

1% from Liechtenstein..