Measurement of the Third Stream in the State Public Universities in Mexico, through the Data Envelopment Analysis
Abstract
The Third Stream of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) seeks to generate and apply knowledge that contributes to the promotion of social welfare at the regional, national and international level. To achieve this, HEIs must help the construction of innovative projects (scientific and technological) that allow the development of disciplinary and multidisciplinary methodologies that facilitate the resolution of real problems that society has. More than ten years after this actual mission, it is important to have a system of indicators that help measure its efficiency, in order to know the situation of the State Public Universities (SPU) in Mexico in relation to this mission. Therefore, the objective of this research is to identify the degree of advancement of the dimensions of entrepreneurship, innovation and social commitment, by measuring technical efficiency. As a hypothesis, it proposed that the efficiency of the State Public Universities in Mexico with respect to its Third Stream is greater than 70%. Using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology, the following results show that the average technical efficiency with variable performance at scale is 91.30%, Being the innovation dimension the one that contains the largest number of universities with efficiency; while, the entrepreneurship dimension is the least efficient SPU. Therefore, the hypothesis that said institutions carry out activities aimed at promoting their Third Stream verified.
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