Title: Measuring the innovation efficiency of Chinese higher education institutions by network DEA

Authors: Meisheng Liu; Desheng Wu

Addresses: School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China ' School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract: In this paper, we proposed network DEA models and used them to measure the relative efficiency of the innovative activities of 34 universities sponsored by Project 985 considering both 'knowledge production process' and 'knowledge commercialisation process'. The main results this study has obtained are as follows: firstly, the average technical efficiency was lower than the average scale efficiency. So technical inefficiency should be attracted more attention. Secondly, there were 21 universities which had increasing returns-to-scale. So the universities with increasing return-to-scale should increase innovative inputs to acquire better performance. Thirdly, there were 21 universities whose E-RAMI lower than E-RAMI, which mean that the universities' innovation efficiency will decrease with increasing R&D expenditure.

Keywords: network DEA; innovation efficiency; knowledge production process; knowledge commercialisation process.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSSCI.2017.091820

International Journal of Services Sciences, 2017 Vol.6 No.3/4, pp.273 - 295

Received: 02 May 2017
Accepted: 05 Aug 2017

Published online: 18 May 2018 *

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