| China’s economy has steadily entered high-quality development,which is no longer suitable for the past factor-driven economic growth model,and innovation-driven has become a national strategy.As the main tractive force of economic development,innovation is also an important strategic cornerstone for China to build a modern socialist market economy.Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle,as the economic region with the strongest innovation ability and the greatest degree of opening to the outside world in the west of China,has a rapid development momentum,and its regional construction has both openness and comprehensive advantages.Higher education has also become a huge driving force for promoting high-quality economic and social development.At the same time,the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Outline of Vision 2035 also pointed out:support the development of high-level research universities,improve the regional allocation of higher education resources,and boost the renewal of higher education in the central and western regions.How to rationally use the limited scientific research resources in universities and take full advantage of them has become popular topic of research,and it is also the key to the sustainable development of scientific research in universities.This paper firstly analyzes the input and output of scientific research in major provinces in China;secondly,based on the principle of index system construction,the evaluation index of scientific research efficiency in universities is constructed by the method of literature research and interview;thirdly,some colleges and universities in urban agglomerations are the research objects,analyze their input-output profiles,calculate and compare their scientific research input-output efficiency using the method of data envelopment analysis,and then compare and analyze the scientific research efficiency of research-oriented sample colleges and universities within the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle,and the projection analysis is made on the sample colleges and universities that are not valid for DEA.The main conclusions are as follows:First,Sichuan Province does not have the most scientific research input and output,but its ranking is at the top of the country.Many input and output indicators are among the best,and the input and output roughly match;although the overall data in Chongqing is relatively low,but the overall development trend is relatively stable,and a number of input-output indicators have steadily increased year by year.However,they still need to be improved and improved in terms of the transformation ability of scientific research results.Second,in 2020,the average scientific research efficiency,pure technology,and scale efficiency of universities in Chengdu-Chongqing and other urban agglomerations will increase by 0.017,0.015,and 0.002 respectively compared with 2016.However,only a few urban agglomerations are effective in DEA,and there is a clear gap between urban agglomerations.The level of research and innovation of universities in urban agglomerations still needs to be further improved.Third,the total number of research projects in the research-oriented sample universities in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle has increased rapidly,and the total amount of research funds allocated is large,while the growth of the equivalent of full-time R&D personnel,teaching and research personnel with senior professional titles is relatively slow.As a result,there may be a mismatch between research topics,funding,and human input.Fourth,there is still much room for improvement in the scientific research efficiency of the research-oriented sample universities in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle,and the influence of the scale factor on the overall efficiency is weakened.And projection analysis found that the main reason for the non-DEA effectiveness of sample colleges and universities is the excess investment of scientific research personnel and scientific research funds in colleges and universities.According to the empirical analysis,this paper proposes to optimize the scientific research innovation and efficient allocation of scientific research resources in universities in Chengdu and Chongqing from the aspects of university scientific research management system,university collaborative innovation,university scientific research awareness,overall planning and coordination of scientific research investment,and promoting the transformation of scientific research achievements. |