The Application of Machine Learning for Creating a Typology of Universities' Financial Models
https://doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2023-32-11-116-135
Abstract
This study presents an application of machine learning for creating a typology of Russian universities’ financial models. Large-scale national initiatives aimed at enhancing human potential and academic excellence, such as Project 5-100, university-industry consortia, world class research center programs as well as the Priority-2030 program, require relevant financial and management accounting tools enabling appropriate analyses of universities’ contribution to national scientific policy implementation. However, when conventional financial analysis and audit techniques are adopted from the corporate sector, they may prove to be irrelevant for assessing the societal impacts of universities. Existing impact study methods, such as those applied in the Russell Group universities’ impact assessment, are expensive and time consuming, so promising machine learning techniques and existing open data from government information systems were used in this study to assess universities’ financial models.
Supporting agencies: The work of Khodachek I.A. was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation grant (Grant ID: 075-15-2022-326).
About the Authors
I. A. Khodachek
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Igor A. Khodachek – Research Fellow, Center for Innovative Social Research, Institute for Social Sciences
Researcher ID: Y-3309-2018
82, Vernadskogo ave., 119571, Moscow
D. V. Minaev
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitry V. Minaev – Professor, Department of Management, North-West Institute of Management
82, Vernadskogo ave., 119571, Moscow
A. V. Zinkovskaya
E-Quadrat Science & Education GmbH
Germany
Germany
Anna V. Zinkovskaya – Data Analyst
Berlin
E. B. Yablokov
E-Quadrat Science & Education GmbH
Germany
Germany
Egor B. Yablokov – CEO
Berlin
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