Third Mission and VQR 2015–2019: A Bigram’s Story

Third Mission VQR exercise for 2015–2019 emphasised a competitive landscape for state and non-state universities. Each institution has its own history, mission and strategic perspective, each with its own description of TM contained inside the strategic plan. The goal of this article is to investigate the content of strategic plans made by Italian universities through 2022 and their relationship with VQR scores using two research questions. The replies were obtained by network textual analysis and correspondence analysis based on bigrams.