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

industry and education. After 2014, the orderliness degree of industries increased rapidly and surpassed that of education, indicating that the coordination of industrial development in Chongqing during this period was better, and contributed more to the integration of industry and education. The results are shown in Fig 1. (2) Performance and development trend of the industry-education complex system. Similarly, the coupling degree C and coupling synergy degree D of the industry-education composite system can be calculated as shown in Table 5. To assess the collaborative development level and trend of industry-education integration of higher education in Chongqing, it is necessary to analyze from two aspects: the coupling coordination degree and coupling degree. Overall, from 2000 to 2022, the collaborative devel- opment of higher education industry-education integration in Chongqing has shown a contin- uous upward trend, but the degree of industry-education coupling has stagnated amid fluctuations, as shown in Fig 2. Fig 1. Orderly development trend of industry and education subsystem. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308572.g001 Table 5. Coupling coordination level of industry-education composite system. Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Coupling degree 0.4987 0.4629 0.4748 0.4834 0.4747 0.4706 0.4659 0.4881 Coupling coordination degree 0.3398 0.3214 0.3191 0.3209 0.3097 0.2982 0.3251 0.3565 Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Coupling degree 0.4970 0.4971 0.4999 0.4988 0.4887 0.4997 0.5000 0.4999

Coupling coordination degree 0.3841 0.3871 0.4220 0.4426 0.4609 0.4534 0.4750 0.4917 Year 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 — Coupling degree 0.4989 0.4986 0.4988 0.4989 0.4997 0.4974 0.4992 — Coupling coordination degree 0.5040 0.5202 0.5315 0.5564 0.5602 0.5812 0.5722 — https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308572.t005 PLOS ONE Performance evaluation of industry-education integration in higher education based on coupling coordination PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308572 September 18, 2024 15 / 22