Universities and research institutes are seen as important drivers of the regional economy. Their impact on regional …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research … universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

on the efficiency of German universities have been published. While the research focus and the applied methods differ … aim of this paper was to show differences and commonalities in efficiency between universities of applied sciences and … universities in Lower Saxony. Based on an exclusive data set, the efficiency values were estimated using Data Envelopment Analysis …

In this paper, we compare the efficiency of the Italian and German universities in the process of transforming public … public universities, of which 73 public universities in Germany and 60 public universities in Italy observed over the period … 2006-2011 we find that Italian universities perform significantly better in terms of output maximization than German …

over the period 2006-2011, we find that Italian universities are significantly better in terms of cost efficiency than …In this paper, we compare the efficiency of the Italian and German university system in the process of translating … sample of 133 public universities, of which 73 public universities in Germany and 60 public Italian universities, observed …