- Clarivate’s list ranks the organisations leading the way in innovation worldwide
- ST earns the distinction for the eighth time overall, including five consecutive years since 2022
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has been named in the Top 100 Global Innovators 2026. In its 15th edition, the annual benchmark from Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, identifies and ranks organisations that consistently deliver high-impact inventions, shaping the future of innovation across industries. The Top 100 Global Innovators navigate complexity with clarity and set the pace for invention quality, originality and global reach.
“We are honoured to be recognised as a Top 100 Innovator by Clarivate for 2026, marking our fifth consecutive year and eighth time overall receiving this distinction. This achievement underscores STMicroelectronics’ unwavering commitment to sustained, large-scale innovation in products and technologies, driven by the creativity and dedication of our global teams,” said Alessandro Cremonesi, Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer, and General Manager, System Research and Applications. “As the pace of technological change accelerates, we work in open collaboration with customers and partners to develop disruptive semiconductor technologies and solutions in sensing, power and energy, connectivity, data communications, compute and edge AI, helping them turn ambitious ideas into market-defining solutions.”
ST invests significantly in R&D, and about 20% of company employees work on product design, development and technology in extensive collaboration with leading research labs and corporate partners throughout around the world. The company’s Innovation Office focuses on connecting emerging market trends with internal technology expertise to identify opportunities, stay ahead of the competition, and lead in new or existing technology domains. ST is recognised as a leading semiconductor technology innovator in several areas, including smart power technologies, wide bandgap semiconductors, edge AI solutions, MEMS sensors and actuators, optical sensing, digital and mixed-signal technologies, and silicon photonics.
Maroun S. Mourad, President, Intellectual Property, Clarivate, said: “Recognition as a Top 100 Global Innovator is a remarkable achievement given the pace of change. Multi-year winners and new entrants are investing in AI innovation as it redefines the boundaries between research, engineering and commercial execution. The leaders we celebrate today are not just responding to this shift, they are designing for it.”
The Top 100 Global Innovators analysis is underpinned by the Clarivate Centre for IP and Innovation Research. Their analyses are founded in rigorous research leveraging the proprietary Derwent Strength Index, derived from the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) and its global invention data to measure the influence of ideas, their success and rarity, and the investment in inventions.
Detailed Methodology
The Top 100 Global Innovators uses a complete comparative analysis of global invention data to assess the strength of every patented idea, using measures tied directly to their innovative power. To move from the individual strength of inventions to identifying the organisations that create them more consistently and frequently, Clarivate sets two threshold criteria that potential candidates must meet and then adds a measure of their internationally patented innovation output over the past five years.
About STMicroelectronics
At ST, we are 50,000 creators and makers of semiconductor technologies, mastering the semiconductor supply chain with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. An integrated device manufacturer, we work with more than 200,000 customers and thousands of partners to design and build products, solutions, and ecosystems that address their challenges and opportunities, and the need to support a more sustainable world. Our technologies enable smarter mobility, more efficient power and energy management, and the wide-scale deployment of cloud-connected autonomous things. We are on track to be carbon neutral in all direct and indirect emissions (scopes 1 and 2), product transportation, business travel, and employee commuting emissions (our scope 3 focus), and to achieve our 100% renewable electricity sourcing goal by the end of 2027.
