Efficiency analysis of scientific laboratories

Abstract

University laboratories involved with the teaching of science develop several intellectual property assets, offering to universities opportunities for investing in the scientific environment. Such feedback loop might be improved if investments in laboratories with high efficiency rates were analyzed and investigated. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how efficiency is taken into account in biomedicine, medicine and exact sciences laboratories to receive financial investments, through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); at the same time, it was possible to observe the low efficiency of some scientific laboratories, which indicates a need for improvement in the scientific environment to subsidize scientific research by using its own revenues.