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

In fact, with the joint efforts of the government, enterprises, schools, industries, and all sec- tors of society, the integration of higher education and industry has gradually deepened in Chongqing, and the level of collaborative education between schools and enterprises has been continuously improved. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the Municipal Party Commit- tee and Government incorporated the integrated development of higher education industry and education into the overall planning of industrial development, prioritizing education and integrating talents into various policies. In conjunction with the implementation of national major strategies such as innovation driven development, new urbanization, and the strategy of building a strong manufacturing country, they formulated policies for the integrated develop- ment of industry and education, committed to building an innovation ecosystem that closely coordinates higher education institutions with industry backbone enterprises and small and medium-sized entrepreneurial enterprises, enhancing the ability to gather talent resources and drive industrial upgrading. The municipal government continued to promote the transforma- tion of ordinary undergraduate institutions into applied technology oriented higher education institutions, and supported the transformation of higher education institutions to carry out professional degree graduate education. Encourage higher vocational schools with conditions to cooperate with applied technology undergraduate colleges to cultivate high-quality technical

talents, promote interactive development between higher education and industry, and so on. These measures have effectively promoted the industry-education integration in school-enter- prise cooperation. However, due to multiple factors such as institutional mechanisms and pol- icy environments, the coupling intensity of industry-education integration in higher education has stagnated, and the quality of industry-education integration needs to be improved. Some disciplines and majors in applied universities were misaligned with the layout of industrial development, and there was a disconnect between the supply side of talent train- ing and the demand side of industrial development. Enterprises were not actively involved, Fig 2. Coupling collaborative development trend of industry-education complex system. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0308572.g002 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 16 / 22