Efficiency evaluation of university research in Zhejiang Province

Abstract

Abstract: Scientific and reasonable evaluation on the efficiency of university research plays an important role in promoting university research innovation and realizing the strategic construction of an innovative nation. Based on the panel data of 26 universities in Zhejiang Province from 2003 to 2010, this paper uses the overall principal component factor analysis to conduct a comprehensive evaluation to research outputs with null set, then employs the BCC-DEA, Malmquist-DEA model to study the efficiency and changes of university research. The results show that the proportion of universities which are efficient in research is low, and the staff redundancy ratio is higher than the fund redundancy ratio. The fluctuations of the average total factor productivity of universities in Zhejiang are significant, and the proportion of universities whose research efficiency decline totals up to 50%. Finally, this paper proposes improving measures to different kinds of universities in accordance with their situations. Wesuggest the optimization of existing personnel structure, improvement of the overall quality level and proper allocation of the scale and structure of funding input as the key to improving research efficiency in Zhejiang Province.

Key words: universities, efficiency evaluation of scientific research, Malmquist productivity index

CLC Number:

F222.3

Su Weihua, Luo Gangfei, Zeng Shouzhen. Efficiency evaluation of university research in Zhejiang Province[J]. Science Research Management, 2015, 36(9): 141-148.

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