The efficiency of scientific activities and technology transfer in higher education in Poland
The efficiency of scientific activities and technology transfer in higher education in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the article is to measure and evaluate the efficiency of scientific activity and technology transfer to the economy by public higher education institutions (HEIs) in Poland and toformulate recommendations for state policy to increase the effectiveness of the technology transferprocess by them. The study measured scientific activity and technology transfer separately in twogroups of higher education institutions (i.e., universities and technical universities). Two non-radialmodels, SBM and BP-SBM, which belong to the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)method, were used for the study.All examined higher education institutions are more efficient in basic research than in transferringtechnology to the economy. However, technical universities are more efficient in technology transferand universities in basic research. In most cases, technical universities are more accomplished inscientific activity than universities in technology transfer. Research shows that universities havebeen almost entirely focused on basic research, and technical universities have engaged in basicresearch and technology transfer to the economy in various ways. The research results confirmed theexistence of very weak links between science and business in terms of knowledge and technologytransfer to the economy. This is due to many factors. The authors presented recommendations fornecessary actions that will enable the increase of technology transfer by public universities in Poland.An interesting direction of future research is the measurement and evaluation of the effectivenessof technology transfer of the second group of NIS entities in Poland, i.e. research institutes.

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