Fig 1.
Theoretical framework of index development.
Table 1.
Description of collected data of job requirements.
Table 2.
Description of the disciplinary classification system for statistics.
Table 3.
Proportion of the space industry HR needs by first-tier discipline.
Fig 2.
The proportion of disciplines needed by the space industry classified by engineering, natural science, social science, and others.
Fig 3.
The proportion of engineering disciplines needed in the space industry.
Fig 4.
The proportion of natural science disciplines needed in the space industry.
Fig 5.
The proportion of social science disciplines needed in the space industry.
Table 4.
Indicators and their weights in the SISPI system.
Table 5.
Definition of primary indicators (Layer-III).
Table 6.
Scores of SISPI, Layer-I, and Layer-II indicators (ranking by SISPI).
Table 7.
Descriptive statistics of all indicators and their coefficients of variation.
Table 8.
Top five universities for Layer-I and Layer-II indicators.
Fig 6.
Different levels of supporting potential among the universities.
Table 9.
Means and standard deviations of the SISPI, Layer-I, and Layer-II indicators in groups of former MMB-affiliated universities and 985 project-listed universities.
Table 10.
Four cluster centers of the k-means algorithm by Layer-II indicators.