Assessment of influence of intellectual capital factors on the activity results of domestic universities
The authors prove the role and significance of intellectual capital’s factors for the development of modern domestic universities using statistical methodology. As a basic methodology there was selected correlation analysis, for which there was used a system of indicators of intellectual capital of the university and outcome indicators (financial indicators). There was formed a sample of the 224 national universities with data for the 4 assessment periods (2013-2016) based on data from official monitoring Ministry of Education and Science of Russia. On the basis of the correlation analysis’ results, it was established that such factors of intellectual capital as publication activity, collaborations with foreign partners, defense of dissertations has a heavy influence on the results of the universities’ activity. There was identified a greater influence of volume indicators of intellectual capital on the result. The least influence was demonstrated by the indicators that characterize the intellectual capital of students. When the study was detailed and compared with the average results of the correlation analysis of the indicators of federal universities, regional supporting universities, national research universities and participants of the "5-100" Project, it was revealed that intellectual capital’s factors in federal universities has the heaviest influence on performance. Specific factors for each of the groups of higher education institutions are studied in the paper, and there is given a justification of the obtained values.