ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1637921
Exploring the scientific and technological achievement transformation policies in Chinese universities: based on policy text analysis and PMC-Index model
Provisionally accepted
- Jilin Agriculture University, Changchun, China
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The transformation of scientific and technological achievements in universities urgently needs to be implemented. To assess the effectiveness of scientific and technological achievement transformation policies in Chinese universities, this study develops an evaluation system using the PMC-index model. This study quantitatively evaluates 10 key policies on the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in Chinese universities based on PMC-index values and PMC-surface analysis. The results show that the PMC-index scores of the selected ten policies range from 3.85 to 7.99, with an overall upward trend. The average PMC index score for the ten policies was 6.21. Of the policies, five were rated as excellent in terms of consistency, four were rated as acceptable, and one was rated as low. This study further analyzes the overall effectiveness, primary variables, and PMC-surface results for the policy samples. The findings suggest that China's current university scientific and technological transformation policies perform well in four areas: policy content, policy evaluation, policy implementation agencies, and policy functions. However, there is still a need for adjustments and optimizations in terms of policy issuing agencies, policy implications, and policy safeguards. And countermeasures and suggestions are proposed from three aspects: joint departmental release, establishment of a conversion platform, and establishment of an incentive mechanism. This study helps identify the strengths and weaknesses of scientific and technological transformation policies, providing a foundation for developing future policies in Chinese universities.
Keywords: Universities, Scientific and technological achievements transformation policy, PMC-Index model, Policy effectiveness, Consistency
Received: 30 May 2025; Accepted: 22 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Liu, Li, Ma and Guan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Lili Guan, llguan@jlau.edu.cn
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