Table 2.

Top 10 converging assignees in the global pharmaceutical industry (China vs. the United States)

Ranking	Assignee name (China)	% of 15,422	Assignee name (U.S.)	% of 28,075
1	Zhejiang University	0.73	F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.	1.75
2	Jiangnan University	0.53	University of California	1.03
3	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	0.37	Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.	0.88
4	Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry	0.34	Inserm Inst Nat Sante & Rech Medicale	0.53
5	China Pharmaceutical University	0.33	Novartis AG	0.50
6	Shandong New Hope LIUHE Group Co. Ltd.	0.32	Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH	0.49
7	Jinan University	0.32	Harvard College	0.47
8	Nanjing Guangkangxie BioPharma Co. Ltd.	0.32	University of Texas System	0.47
9	Qingdao Municipal Hospital	0.31	Roche Diagnostics GmbH	0.46
10	Shandong University	0.27	Johns Hopkins University	0.45