Higher Education, Technological Innovation, and Regional Sustainable Development: Insights from a VAR Model

Table 9

Evaluation indicators index system and weight.

Subsystem	Indicators	Weight
U1	Student scale learning in school	0.0599
	Number of graduate students	0.1081
	Number of full-time teachers at professorial level	0.1493
	Local higher education outlay	0.5431
	Teacher-student ratio	0.0574
	Gross enrolment ratio in higher education	0.0822
U2	R&D fund	0.1322
	Internal expenditure of R&D fund	0.1316
	Sales revenue of new products	0.1650
	Number of patents authorized	0.1950
	Output value of high and new technology industry	0.0859
	Technical contract turnover	0.2904
U3	GDP per capita	0.1426
	Resident per disposable income	0.1647
	Comparison of consumption level of urban and rural residents (urban = 1)	0.1099
	Per capita output in secondary sector of the economy	0.1024
	Per capita output in tertiary sector of the economy	0.1415
	Total imports and exports	0.1432
	Total imports and exports/GDP	0.1178
	Industrial value added above scale/total energy consumption	0.0779

U₁ represents the higher education system; U₂ represents the technological innovation system; U₃ represents the industrial economic system.