In this notebook we explore how much money is made from licencing IP, particularly software licences at UK higher education providers. Academic years covered are from 2014/15 through to 2019/20. All money values are in millions of £ unless otherwise stated.
Source code here https://github.com/RSE-Sheffield/soft_income
Sources:
Average IP income over all available academic years (6 years).
HE Provider | Mean IP Value (million £s) |
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The University of Oxford | 35.5 |
The Institute of Cancer Research | 34.6 |
The University of Sheffield | 10.7 |
The University of Cambridge | 10.5 |
University College London | 8.3 |
Queen’s University Belfast | 6.0 |
Newcastle University | 5.2 |
Oxford Brookes University | 3.5 |
The Open University | 3.5 |
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | 2.8 |
Time series split by IP type for top ten institutions.
Average software licencing income over all available academic years (6 years).
HE Provider | Mean Software IP Value (millions £) |
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The University of Cambridge | 1.5 |
The University of York | 1.1 |
The University of Glasgow | 1.0 |
University College London | 0.7 |
Loughborough University | 0.7 |
The University of Oxford | 0.5 |
The University of Hull | 0.4 |
The University of Sheffield | 0.3 |
The University of Greenwich | 0.3 |
Swansea University | 0.3 |
Time series software licencing income for top ten institutions.
Average research income over all available academic years (5 years).
HE Provider | Mean Research Income (millions £) |
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The University of Oxford | 587.9 |
The University of Cambridge | 526.6 |
University College London | 483.1 |
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | 358.4 |
The University of Manchester | 284.5 |
The University of Edinburgh | 279.9 |
King’s College London | 195.1 |
The University of Glasgow | 180.4 |
The University of Sheffield | 175.2 |
The University of Bristol | 162.4 |
Time series research income for top ten institutions.