designing a mathematical model for allocating budget to university research and educational goals:a case study in shahed university

institutions of higher education, both public and private, are among the most important institutions of a country. several economic factors have forced them to act for improving the cost-effectiveness of their activities and the quality of their products (outputs) is strongly expected. such issues have led universities to focus on profit-making activities and commercialization like manufacturing industries. this propensity is grounded in the fact that manufacturing industries working under an efficient management system can produce very high-quality products. as a matter of fact, there is no such a model for academic contexts. therefore, this paper is aimed at offering such a model. the coefficients and constants used in this model have all been extracted based on analyzing research and educational aspects of shahed university. the proposed model is a lexicographic model which has thirty six decision variables that are broken down into two classes of university sources variables (fifteen) ...