6.2.4 Results for HSS Disciplines........................
In this subsection, wefirst estimate the influencing factors of HSS research effi-
ciency of 211Us. Detailed estimation results are presented in Table6.6. Overall
speaking, there are considerable differences on the conclusions obtained from the
econometric models between NEAM and HSS disciplines. We will have a dis-
cussion on this later.
6.2.4.1 Environmental Factors
- Regional Economy Conditions
Concerning the impacts of four variables to measure regional economy condi-
tions, namely,“Capital”,“Eastern”,“Central”,“JU”and“HSZU”,it’s easy tofind
that those universities located in a capital city are more efficient, but this advantage
is not statistically significant. Compared with western 211Us, eastern 211Us are
less efficient, while the central 211Us are more efficient. Furthermore, those uni-
versities located in Jing-Jin-Ji or Hu-Su-Zhe areas are less efficient than universities
in other east areas, yet with no statistical significance.“PerGDP”is positively
associated with research efficiency with statistical significance at 0.05 level.
“SciTech”and“HighTech”, two proxy variables to measure the innovation of
Science and Technology in a particular province, have trivial and insignificant
impacts on research efficiency. These all imply that, to HSS disciplines of 211Us,
their research efficiency have less connections with local economy conditions.
- University Cluster
Based on the estimation results of“211Us”, the relation between number of
211Us in a particular province and the HSS research efficiency is inconsistent
across models, but all the estimations of partial coefficients are not statistically
significant.“985Us”has positive impact on research efficiency with no statistical
significance, implying that cluster effect appears where more 985Us are gathered to
some extent.
6.2.4.2 Sectoral and Institutional Factors
- International Cooperation and Communication
The results in Table6.6shows that“InterEx”has trivial impact on research
efficiency with no statistical significance. This reflects that the increasingly frequent
international cooperation and communication haven’t brought the expected benefits
to the improvement of research efficiency in Chinese universities.
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