Listing marks the fourth consecutive year that Saint-Gobain has been honoured.
Saint-Gobain was listed among the 100 most innovative companies in the world for the fourth consecutive year. The group was singled out along with four major industrial companies and three research organizations in France, which places France in the third place among the most innovative countries, behind the US and Japan.
The Top 100 Global Innovators program identifies the companies and research structures that are the most active in terms of innovation.
The selection is based on four criteria: the success rate of patent applications, the international scope of the patent portfolio, the influence of the patent in terms of the number of citations in the professional literature and the number of patents.
To see the full list of winner, please visit: http://top100innovators.com/