Measurement and characteristics of high-quality development level of innovation and entrepreneurship based on EM-AHP-TOPSIS

Issue title: Managing Complex Computational Challenges

Guest editors: Pit Pichappan, Ezendu Ariwa and Fouzi Harrag

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Shan, Zhengyi^{a; b} | Zhu, Shihong^{c; *}

Affiliations: [a] Institute of Education Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China | [b] Personnel Department Ningbo Childhood Education College, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China | [c] Office of Discipline Inspection Commission Ningbo Childhood Education College, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Shihong Zhu, Office of Discipline Inspection Commission Ningbo Childhood Education College, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315336, China. E-mail: 2014001@ncec.edu.cn.

Abstract: By constructing an evaluation system for the high-quality development of innovation and entrepreneurship, an evaluation index system was established in this study from five aspects: the background, process, input, output, and transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship, and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and entropy method (EM) were adopted to perform combination weighting. Then, the core of each subsystem and the comprehensive score were calculated based on the TOPSIS method, the high-quality development level of urban innovation and entrepreneurship in 19 vice-ministerial cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Chengdu in China was measured, and the innovation and entrepreneurship development level and structural characteristics were analyzed from five aspects. The results show that Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, and Guangzhou take the lead in the high-quality development of innovation and entrepreneurship, while Xi’an, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Qingdao, Jinan, and Ningbo are in the medium level. Chongqing, Shenyang, Dalian, Harbin, Xiamen, and Changchun perform poorly in the development of innovation and entrepreneurship with problems of interregional large gradient difference in capacity and unbalanced development, which provides an important reference for understanding the current situation, advantages, and disadvantages of innovation and entrepreneurship education development in various economic zones.

Keywords: Innovation and entrepreneurship, entropy method, analytic hierarchy process, TOPSIS method, level measurement

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-230009

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1863-1876, 2024