Measuring efficiency of university-industry Ph.D. projects using best worst method

Scientometrics

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1911-1938

  Salimi, Negin ^a   Rezaei, Jafar ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Best worst method (BWM); Collaborative Ph.D. project; Efficiency; Multi criteria decision making; University industry collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988419365     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2121-0     Document Type: Article

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