Located in Israeli Rehovot, the Weizmann Institute of Science is named the best research institute in the world outside the US and the sixth among the best research institutes in the world according to the international rating.
President of the Weizmann Institute Professor Daniel Seifman pointed out that success was made possible by a special approach to research at the institute: "We attract scientists who are among the best in the world and allow them to follow their curiosity.
"This leads, in the end, to innovative and unexpected results that shape the future," said Zayfman.
Israel Institute. Weizmann became the only research institute in TOP-10, not representing the US. The rating was compiled by the scientific journal Nature and published on the website nature.com.
The rating is headed by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego, Rockefeller University in New York and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. The rating was compiled on the basis of an assessment of the impact of the research activities of institutes on innovation in industry (the number of references to scientific research in registered patents by industrial companies and organizations).