高等教育产业的经济分析

Economic Analysis on Higher Education Industry

从经济学的角度来看,判断一项社会活动是否具有产业性,主要看它是否属于生产过程、其产品是否具有商品特征。高等教育作为主要从事人力资源开发、系统的科学研究和技术研制并通过其最终产品———人才和科研成果服务社会的特殊社会活动,其发展速度和规模不仅与经济发展水平密切相关,而且对于社会文明建设具有不可估量的作用。要大力发展高等教育,弄清其是否具有产业性这一问题无疑具有重要的意义。

From economic point of view, judging whether a social activity has industrial characteristics depends on whether it has production process and its products possess commercial characteristics. Higher education conducts special activities through developing human resources, doing systematic scientific and technological research and serves the society through its final products of talents and scientific research results. Therefore, its developing speed and scale not only are connected with the level of economic development but also have incalculable effects on the construction of social civilization. It is of great significance to make clear whether higher education has industrial characteristics before developing it energetically.