The impact of government funding on research innovation: An empirical analysis of Chinese universities

The university is one of the most important places for scientific research, and it is the cradle of knowledge output and technological invention. Using the granular data of more than 1,000 universities' funding from the government in China, we investigate the impact of government funding on research innovation at the university level. The results show that government funds promote the output of research innovation of universities. The effectiveness of government funding is greater when combined with greater human capital and more platforms for international cooperation. Interestingly, further studies have found that human capital and non-government funds have a moderating influence on the effect of government funds on university research output. Moreover, there are some differences between “211 Project” (high quality) universities and “non-211 Project” universities. Finally, given the relaxation of policy for government funding of university research in 2014, we investigate the relationship between human capital (especially specialists with senior titles) and government funds in the process of research innovation. The results show that, before 2014, human capital presents a substitution relationship with government funding while it presents a complementary relationship after 2014.     

A centralized directional distance model for efficient and horizontally equitable grants allocation to local governments

This paper proposes a directional distance model for efficient resource allocation when there is a centralized decision maker who oversees all units. The model is designed to allocate grants from an upper-tier government to the municipalities under its jurisdiction. Local governments employ the grants together with levied local taxes to provide services to their citizens. The objective of our formulation is to optimize grants allocation across municipalities taking into account efficiency, effectiveness and horizontal fiscal equity criteria. The model easily allows the setting of alternative priorities of the central decision maker, thus permitting quantification of the trade-off between the potential increase in the provision of local services and its associated cost. The model is applied to the allocation of current grants in the autonomous community of Navarre in northern Spain.     

Efficiency evaluation for higher education institutions in China considering unbalanced regional development: A meta-frontier Super-SBM model

The development of higher education institutions (HEIs) is related to the future overall development of higher education in China. Studying the efficiency of provincial HEIs in China has great significance in deepening the reform of higher education evaluation, promoting coordinated regional development, and building a country powerful in its higher education. Based on the Super-SBM method, this paper creatively integrates meta-frontier theory and an index of international exchange and cooperation into an evaluation system for higher education efficiency. Taking 2011–2020 as the sample period, this study conducts a dynamic assessment of the higher education efficiency in 30 mainland Chinese provinces. It explores the differences in production technology in the eastern, central, and western regions, analyzing the environmental factors that affect the efficiency of higher education. The results show that during the sample period, the overall efficiency of higher education in China improved steadily. Efficiency Change is the main driving force. The three regions have significantly different technology gap ratio, and the structure of resource allocation significantly impacts efficiency. Therefore, this study's main recommendations are that the Chinese government should not only deepen the coordinated development of higher education between regions but also pay more attention to solving the problem of unbalanced development between China's geographical regions. At the same time, educational authorities should expand the number of ordinary colleges and universities in the central and western regions, develop non-financial funding sources, and improve the level of refined management of HEIs.     

高等教育利用资本市场融资探析

虽然我国已经初步建立起高等教育的多渠道筹资体制,但目前依然存在高等教育经费的主渠道薄弱,结构不合理等诸多问题,导致政府财政压力过大,高等教育经费投入严重不足。要发展高等教育就必须充分利用市场的资源配置功能,扩大和调整现在筹资渠道,提高经费的使用效率。     

Australian public sector reform

This article presents an investigation into the Australian public education sector and focuses on the management of research and doctoral education in an increasingly corporatized climate. It is argued that diversity in knowledge creation and production is central to the successful Knowledge Economy. Diversity in doctoral education encompasses: diversity of student; diversity of research approach and type; and diversity of discipline and institution. Government has a key role in maintaining diversity against the background of an increasing tendency in public sector policy towards corporatization and outcomes-based funding. Four key areas of concern are identified: funding allocation for research and doctoral places; resource allocation and competition; selectivity and concentration; and relevance. It is argued that, taken together, these four policy directions could significantly impact the nature of Australian doctoral research and, in many instances, diminish diversity.     

Results of the first survey of independent trust grantmaking: who is setting the agenda?

Based on an analysis of 2,300 grants made by a representative sample of independent trusts and foundations, ‘Patterns of Independent Grantmaking in the UK’ is the first national survey identifying where independent trusts allocate their funds. The results show that, as in mainstream central and local government expenditure, social care was a clear priority for independent grantmakers, not only attracting the highest proportion of grants overall, but also the single largest proportion of funding, £233m. This figure equals just over one‐third of local authority support for social services in the voluntary sector and indicates that the collective impact of independent funding to the sector is significant. Social care funding consisted mainly of a large number of small to medium‐sized grants. Health was the second largest area, followed by education and the arts. There was a considerable regional imbalance in funding. Given this fairly conservative pattern of funding, the question arises whether funders are led by applicants or vice versa? What is needed to introduce more change and risk into trust funding? Copyright © 2000 Henry Stewart Publications.     

Theoretical implications from the case of performance-based human resource management practices in Japan: management fashion,institutionalization and strategic human resource management perspectives

In Japan, a new type of human resource management (HRM) practices called ‘performance-based HRM practices’ (seika-shugi in Japanese) emerged in the 1990s, and has been adopted by many Japanese firms. In this paper, I illustrate how these type of practices emerged as a management fashion, diffused across a large number of Japanese firms, and became institutionalized in the Japanese business context; and discuss the relationship between performance-based HRM practices and firm performance. This illustration is used to develop a theoretical framework to better understand the relationship between HRM practices and firm performance by integrating theories of management fashions, institutionalization and strategic HRM. Suggestions for future research are also discussed.     

SAD模型法在物流资源优化配置中的应用

运用ＳＡＤ模型法对企业物流资源优化配置进行了系统分析，以求帮助企业合理安排管理资源，采取相应的措施，实现集约化经营。     

Efficiency and technological change at US research universities

This article investigates the determinants of efficiency and technological progress at US research universities. It relies on a unique panel data set of multiple outputs and inputs from 92 universities covering the period 1981–1998. Over that time span, US universities experienced large increases in industry funding and in academic patenting activity. In this context, the directional distance function and a nonparametric representation of the underlying production technology are combined to obtain estimates of productivity growth and technical efficiency. An econometric analysis is then presented to examine the determinants of technical efficiency and the rate of technological progress. The results show how changes in funding sources for US research universities affects research performance.     

THE PUBLIC ASSIGNMENT OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS1

Different planning systems allocate property rights differently between the state and private property owners. This article argues that the appropriate allocation of property rights between the state and private owners can only be discovered by a process of experimentation. The experience of the UK suggests that such a process can take time and may be hindered by the controlling tendencies of central government.     

Allocation of public funds to R&;D: a portfolio choice-styled decision model and a biotechnology case study

A decision problem—allocating public research and development (R&D) funding—is faced by a planner who has ambiguous knowledge of welfare effects of the various research areas. We model this as a reverse portfolio choice problem faced by a Bayesian decision-maker. Two elements of the planner’s inferential system are developed: a conditional distribution of welfare ‘returns’ on an allocation, given stated preferences of citizens for the different areas, and a minimum risk criterion for re-allocating these funds, given the performance of a status quo level of funding. A case study of Canadian public research funds expended on various applications of agricultural biotechnology is provided. The decision-making methodology can accommodate a variety of collective expenditure and resource allocation problems.     

The future for universities: a public–private partnership?

Higher education funding arrangements remain unsatisfactory. Central government's price controls over the services which universities offer threate both autonomy and quality. The best UK research universities can no longer compete with their counterparts in the United States and elsewhere. This article proposes a return to private status for universities, allowing them to form a contractual relationship with government for teaching and research, with freedom to charge an additional market price for their services to privately funded and overseas students.     

政府预算资金优先配置绩效审计探讨

优先性是预算资金配置的基本要求。预算资金是否优先配置应是我国政府预算资金绩效审计首先关注的问题。我国开展政府预算资优先配置审计,能推动事后审计向事前审计的转轨,使审计成为资源配置的杠杆。政府应改变预算审计组织方式,由易到难地推进优先配置审计。     

基于网络的高校通用设备智能化管理平台初探

仪器设备管理历来是高校固定资产管理工作的重中之重,亦是难点所在。与当前各项教学科研事业遍地开花、欣欣向荣相比,以往高校所采用的仪器设备管理模式显得捉襟见肘,已然难以满足新形势的需要。引入系统管理理念,对设备管理全流程进行重新整合和顶层设计,并以更加先进智能的信息化手段推动落实,可以有效地提高仪器设备管理水平,科学合理地配置资源,为教学科研和人才培养提供可靠的物质保障,解决设备管理上的难题,缓解学校发展的迫切性与资源有限性之间的矛盾。     

Physician and hospital funding options in a public system with decreasing resources

Methods of physician and hospital reimbursement have been the subject of many debates over the years. Structuring a method of payment for physicians under a publicly funded system is particularly difficult when considered in relation to methods of hospital funding. In this paper, we present a mathematical model that simulates physician and hospital behaviour in a publicly funded health care system under a variety of funding scenarios. The model assumes both doctors and hospitals are constrained profit satisficers. Given this assumption, and a reduction in funding to the institution, the model searches for a resource allocation that will achieve target incomes for both decision-making groups through changes to case mix and/or reductions in the fixed or variable costs of production.Results indicate that when physicians are funded on a fee-for-service basis, the hospital funding method in place may have little impact on resource allocation following a budget reduction. When physicians are funded via salary, conflict between the two groups is reduced, but under supply is more likely to occur. These results raise important questions regarding the type of hospital funding model that should be in place.Unlike earlier approaches, our model jointly simulates the behaviour of both hospitals and health care providers. By including both actors, it provides a mechanism for investigating the interaction between physicians and hospitals under a variety of funding scenarios. Given that hospital-physician systems respond to funding reductions by reducing the fixed costs of production or by decreasing the variable costs of production, the model can be used to identify a range of alternative case mix, case cost, and cost-sharing scenarios.     

高校科技经费投入趋势预测与比较研究

随着国家科技创新体系的不断完善,高校在科技创新工作中发挥重要作用。因此,加强高校科技管理,提高经费使用效益,就显得尤为重要。以十一五期间江苏高校科技经费投入为基础数据,采用灰色预测建模法构建了高校科技经费投入GM(1,1)模型,对十二五期间江苏高校科技经费投入演化趋势进行预测分析。研究结果表明,企业委托经费与政府下拨经费持高速增长趋势,其他收入转入科技经费增长较为平稳。因此,对于江苏高校而言,应积极争取政府财政科技经费和企业委托经费,进而增强自身科技发展水平和竞争力。     

The offspring of new public management in English Universities

New Public Management emphasizes the importance of Accountability and Performance evaluations. The purpose of this article is to explore the use of performance models and goal-setting in universities as a means for gaining insight into the use of similar performance approaches in the broader context of the new public management. The article deals with the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) which is a research evaluation mechanism used by the English Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) to determine the distribution of research funding among the universities.     

土地使用管制及其利益补偿研究评述和启示

土地使用管制是政府配置土地资源、干预土地市场的一种方式。纠正土地使用的外部性、提供公共产品是管制的主要目的。土地使用管制的存在是必要的,但是人们必须注意加强对其效果的研究。这些效果有些是积极的,有些是消极的。土地使用管制本身是有成本的。随着社会的发展,土地使用管制方式越来越多样化、弹性化和市场化。由于管制而给有关主体造成的影响可通过税费或者补偿的方式予以再调整,以维护社会公平,并达到特定的社会目标。本文通过对国内外有关文献的回顾,得出了几点对我国土地制度有益的启示,这些制度包括耕地保护制度、用途管制制度和城市土地出让制度。     

A grant rationing model for a health care system.

Most public health programs are created through a political process and the health administrator's resource allocation decision is influenced not only by the relative performance of the subunits but also by political considerations. This paper presents a goal programming model for rationing available grants to competing health care subunits on the basis of performance subject to resource and political constraints. Performance is defined in terms of output adjusted for non-compliance on the identified quality of care and administrative efficiency criteria. The quality and efficiency criteria are those specified by the Federal agency as amended by local funding authorities and subunit administrators through a Delphi process. The model has the advantage of flexibility and can be easily adapted to suit prevailing financial and political conditions. In particular, it can be used as a viable analytical tool in health care and other public service agencies where political considerations are important in resource allocation decisions.