The Status of Turkey in light of the indicators of EU innovation (EIS)

• Main Author: Filiz ERSÖZ
• Language: Turkish
• Published: Ä°TÃœDERGÄ°SÄ°/b 2011
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: http://itudergi.itu.edu.tr/index.php/itudergisi_b/article/view/1087

It is a generally accepted fact to experience a cultural change process from using technology to research and development (R&D), and from R&D to innovation and producing technology in our globalising world in which competition conditions get difficult day by day. It is accepted that investments in knowledge such as innovative work approaches, R&D and education play a key role in economic growth. Skills in innovation and R&D have a direct relationship with the country's education, number of scientists, wide-band communication facilities, clustered small and medium sized enterprises, universities, research institutions, government subsidies and incentives, procurement authorities, resources allocated to R&D and procurement policies. This study aims at understanding the needs, putting forward where Turkey stands on an innovation scale in order to define appropriate strategies ans according to indicators which areas should be focused with priority in order for Turkey to reach the level of developed countries. For this purpose, the innovation indicators found in the European Innovation Scoreboard have been used. The indicators also include the innovation performances of Turkey, Croatia, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Israel, Canada, Australia, USA and Japan besides the EU Member Countries. In the study, 12 out of 25 indicators found in the Innovation Scoreboard where Turkey?s data included have been used. These indicators are S&E graduates, Tertiary education, Broadband penetration rate, Public R&D expenditures, Business R&D expenditures, ICT expenditures, High-tech exports, EPO patents, USPTO patents, Triad patents, Community trademarks, Community designs. In this study, multivariate statistical methods have been applied to the EIS indicators. According to the hierarchical clustering analysis (HCA), Turkey has defined to take place in the same cluster with Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Greece, Lithuania, Hungary, Estonia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Portugal and Malta. To test the ...