Background: Increasing the number of students in universities, simultaneously limiting
allocation of funds to them, and maintaining the highest efficiency level in education and …

Using a survey on Italian graduates, we investigate whether universities' degree production
affects the economic development of the regions where academic institutions are located. To …

ABSTRACT A government report criticised Australian universities for low proficiency in
commercialising epistemic production (research and knowledge). A critical omission was a …

Measuring the efficiency of public higher education institutions has become a subject of
many studies. We analyse these studies using meta-analysis and identify the most …

Technical efficiency is the ability of a firm to produce its maximum output using a set of inputs
or to minimise the use of its inputs to produce a certain level of output. When a firm is …

El presente estudio analiza el grado de eficiencia técnica alcanzados por los sistemas
universitario regionales españoles en la gestión de los recursos financieros disponibles …

Vocational Training and Apprenticeship Centres (VTACs) are public institutions using
considerable public resources and contributing to economy development. The purpose of …

Whether the increase in a region's economic activity could be attributable to the presence of
a university is an important issue in economic geography. This paper uses the age of …

Measuring the performance of public service organizations has increasingly become more
intensive since the emergence of the New Public Management (NPM) in the 1980's. Since …

We build a frontier function model with technical and cost efficiency measures to assess the
impact of energy costs on competitiveness in the aluminum industry, a heavy energy …