Performance evaluation of industry-education integration in higher education from the perspective of coupling coordination-an empirical study based on Chongqing

RESEARCH ARTICLE Performance evaluation of industry-education integration in higher education from the perspective of coupling coordination-an empirical study based on Chongqing Xianwen GongID* School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University of Education, Chongqing, China * gongxianwen@126.com Abstract The coupling coordination between higher education and regional industries is an effective way to enhance the performance of industry-education integration and an important driving force for promoting sustainable economic and social development. This article aims to eval- uate the performance level of industry-education integration in higher education from the perspective of coupling coordination between industry and education, and to analyze its sustainable development trends. To achieve this, a framework for the industry-education complex system is constructed based on the theory of coupling coordination, and a perfor- mance evaluation model for industry-education integration is established. The "structure- conduct-performance" (S-C-P) analysis paradigm of industrial organization theory is used to design a performance evaluation indicator system, and the entropy weight method is applied to assign weights to the indicator system. Empirical research is conducted on Chongqing based on statistical data from 2000 to 2022. The results show that: (1) During the sample period, the construction effectiveness of industry-education integration in higher education in Chongqing is relatively significant, and the coordination level between regional industries

and higher education continues to rise. (2) The orderly development level of the two subsys- tems of regional industries and higher education alternately rises, jointly promoting the con- tinuous improvement of the performance level of industry-education integration, which is the main driving factor for performance improvement. (3) The stagnation of the coupling strength between regional industries and higher education is a key obstacle to further improving the performance of industry-education integration. Industry-education integration is a systematic project that should be promoted collaboratively from the perspectives of the regional industrial subsystem, higher education subsystem, industry-education complex system, and external environment to continuously enhance the performance level. PLOS ONE PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308572 September 18, 2024 1 / 22 a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 OPEN ACCESS Citation: Gong X (2024) Performance evaluation of industry-education integration in higher education from the perspective of coupling coordination-an empirical study based on Chongqing. PLoS ONE 19(9): e0308572. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0308572 Editor: Jiwei Tian, Air Force Engineering University, CHINA Received: May 8, 2024 Accepted: July 26, 2024 Published: September 18, 2024 Copyright: © 2024 Xianwen Gong. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original

author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are within the manuscript and its Supporting information files. Funding: This article is funded by the following projects, and we express our gratitude for their support: Key Project of Chongqing Education Science Planning "Research on the Collaborative Training Mode of Applied Talents of Industry- Education Integration in the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle" (Grant No. 2021-GX-033); Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project