*4.2. Medicine Transference Index in Patents for Spanish Universities*

The Spanish scientific output developed by the institutions in the field of medicine cited in patents is reflected in Table 5. Broadly speaking, it can be seen that they are basically the same institutions as the general transfer, with some exceptions of universities, which do not have medical faculties and do not appear in this ranking. If one observes the last column of the table, the explanation is easy: medical research accounts for a very high percentage of the publications cited in patents. The table has been ordered according to this percentage, with the University of Navarra reaching more than 50%. It can be seen that this percentage decreases in accordance with the vocation of each university, so that the last ones in this ranking are technical universities that do not have a medical faculty, and this scientific output is due to collaboration with other institutions.


**Table 5.** Medicine Transference Index in Patents (MED-TIP).

<sup>1</sup> N-MED Total number of publications classifies as Medicine category (ASJC) cited in patents; <sup>2</sup> NCP Total number of publications cited in patents; <sup>3</sup> *N* Total number of publications published by the institution in period 1998–2018; <sup>4</sup> TIP = NCP × 100/N; <sup>5</sup> TIP-MED = N-MED × 100/N; <sup>6</sup> % MED-TOT = N-MED × 100/NCP.
