Abstract
This paper divides the typical social scientific research process into two stages: the research development stage and the research innovation stage, with personnel as a shared input between them. We construct an input-shared multi-period two-stage DEA (data envelopment analysis) model as measurement of sustainability capacities of social scientific research, and then measure both the overall efficiencies and the stage efficiencies of scientific research of 18 HEIs (higher education institutions) in Jiangsu province of China from 2010 to 2014. There are some revelatory traits among the overall efficiencies and stage efficiencies of HEIs. As for the HEIs, the efficiencies of the first stage of certain HEIs that are better in social science are higher than those which have advantage in natural science. The results are the opposite in the second stage. Additionally, in virtue of common-weight global MPI (Malmquist Productivity Index), we figure out the dynamic efficiencies within and between HEIs. Finally, we appeal to administration departments to establish academic sharing systems and construct interdisciplinary ecosystems among HEIs, which aims to pool the knowledge, experience, and capacities of the region’s academic actors and improve the sustainable development and innovation abilities of social scientific research. In addition, collaborating with industrial organizations is also a strategic avenue to improve their research abilities, which can push the boundaries of sustainable development and also bring vigor in social scientific research.
Highlights
Social science is a branch of science that deals with various phenomena of human society with scientific methods
Data source: Humanities and Social Science Research Management System of the National Ordinary Institutions of Higher Learning (Jiangsu Province). It is the percentage differences between the investments obtained by HEIs in their research projects at all levels and the intellectual outputs produced by them that drive us to track the performance of scientific research of different HEIs, but how can we accurately evaluate the performance of social scientific research in order to make the resource allocation more efficient? We should be equipped with a reasonable approach and a set of appropriate indicators of performance evaluation
The social scientific research launched by HEIs is essential to enhance the scope, discover new possibilities, and catalyze change in social and economic development
Summary
Social science is a branch of science that deals with various phenomena of human society with scientific methods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science). In 2014, the funds from governments was 441.25 million yuan, accounting for approximately 60.1% of all sources of funds, which can show that the development of the social science has captured enough attention from the government departments After investing such a huge amount of money, it is natural and reasonable for the stakeholders, such as policy-makers, administrators of HEIs and scholars to shift their attention to the operation and evaluation of the scientific research supported by those funds. They try to evaluate the performance of the scientific research among HEIs, in order to make resource allocation more efficient, and to achieve an overall development of scientific research, exerting positive influence on regional innovation, and economic and social development
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