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ON THE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY CHANGES DEVELOPMENT IN SLOVAKIAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION 2005-2015: MALMQUIST INDEX APPROACH
Matus Kubak, Beata Gavurova, Gabriel Drotar
ABSTRACT. The aim of this study is to determine efficiency of Slovak faculties in long term time period by whilst distinguish between technological shift and changes in efficiency. We run analysis of efficiency and innovation potential of faculties in Slovak republic using Malmquist index. We distinguish nine groups of faculties: Economics, Philosophy, Agronomy, Technology, Natural, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Education and Law. Input variables in our study are Students and Teachers and Doctoral study. Output variables are Publications and Quotes and Grants. Main finding is that Slovak faculties have rather potential to improve their efficiency rather than innovativeness. We also identify general pattern that dominate among all clusters of faculties and that is that faculties are able to adapt to ranking criteria with aim to score as good as possible in rankings.
KEYWORDS: Malmquist index, efficiency, innovations, faculties, Slovakia.
JEL classification: C14, C18, D24, I21.