PMID- 27942084
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20191120
IS  - 0138-9130 (Print)
IS  - 0138-9130 (Linking)
VI  - 109
IP  - 3
DP  - 2016
TI  - Measuring efficiency of university-industry Ph.D. projects using best worst 
      method.
PG  - 1911-1938
AB  - A collaborative Ph.D. project, carried out by a doctoral candidate, is a type of 
      collaboration between university and industry. Due to the importance of such 
      projects, researchers have considered different ways to evaluate the success, 
      with a focus on the outputs of these projects. However, what has been neglected 
      is the other side of the coin-the inputs. The main aim of this study is to 
      incorporate both the inputs and outputs of these projects into a more meaningful 
      measure called efficiency. A ratio of the weighted sum of outputs over the 
      weighted sum of inputs identifies the efficiency of a Ph.D. PROJECT: The weights 
      of the inputs and outputs can be identified using a multi-criteria 
      decision-making (MCDM) method. Data on inputs and outputs are collected from 51 
      Ph.D. candidates who graduated from Eindhoven University of Technology. The 
      weights are identified using a new MCDM method called Best Worst Method (BWM). 
      Because there may be differences in the opinion of Ph.D. candidates and 
      supervisors on weighing the inputs and outputs, data for BWM are collected from 
      both groups. It is interesting to see that there are differences in the level of 
      efficiency from the two perspectives, because of the weight differences. 
      Moreover, a comparison between the efficiency scores of these projects and their 
      success scores reveals differences that may have significant implications. A 
      sensitivity analysis divulges the most contributing inputs and outputs.
FAU - Salimi, Negin
AU  - Salimi N
AD  - Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, 
      Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands.
FAU - Rezaei, Jafar
AU  - Rezaei J
AD  - Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, 
      Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160917
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Scientometrics
JT  - Scientometrics
JID - 7901197
PMC - PMC5124053
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Best worst method (BWM)
OT  - Collaborative Ph.D. project
OT  - Efficiency
OT  - Multi-criteria decision-making
OT  - University-industry collaboration
EDAT- 2016/12/13 06:00
MHDA- 2016/12/13 06:01
PMCR- 2016/09/17
CRDT- 2016/12/13 06:00
PHST- 2016/05/25 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/12/13 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/12/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/12/13 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/09/17 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 2121 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11192-016-2121-0 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Scientometrics. 2016;109(3):1911-1938. doi: 10.1007/s11192-016-2121-0. Epub 2016 
      Sep 17.