UBI Global has announced the winners of its global incubator benchmark, with SetSquared retaining number one but this time sharing the position with DMZ.

SetSquared, a partnership between Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey universities, emerged as the top incubator in the world at the World Incubation Summit in Toronto on Friday, sharing first place with Ryerson University’s DMZ.

SetSquared and DMZ won joint top place in the university-linked incubation program category. The ranking was published by UBI Global, a research firm specialising in incubators, which benchmarked 259 programs for the latest edition.

The first place for SetSquared means the incubator maintained its leadership after previously also winning first place in 2015. DMZ was ranked in third place at the time.

Simon Bond, innovation director of SetSquared, and Ali Amin, co-founder and chief executive of UBI Global, previously discussed the incubator’s success at GUV:Fusion 2017.

The top ten were filled out by:

3 PoliHub – Startup District & Incubator, at Polytechnic University of Milan
4 University of Toronto Entrepreneurship

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