This paper aims to explore the impact of ICT on output and/or productivity growth in Turkish manufacturing. The analysis is based on the firm level data obtain from Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) and covers the period from 2003 to 2010. Two different methodologies are used in exploring...

The motivation to classify industries in their effort to innovate with the structure of demand, lead to a theoretical controversy in innovative activity known as ‘demand-pull’ versus ‘technology-push’ forces of technical change. Previous empirical literature has provided evidence...

The intuition that technological progress was a key determinant of sustained economic growth provided the impetus of a large body of empirical literature that focused on understanding the employment consequences of innovation within and between firms, industries and countries. The aim of this...

Although the literature provided insights into the impact of R&D support programs on (private) R&D expenditures, output growth and productivity, little research has tended to focus on the relationship between public R&D support and the demand for researchers that constitute the main input for...

Entry and exit are crucial elements of market selection process which leads to the restructuring, adaptation and evolution of an industry. While the importance of entry and exit has been recognised, attention has focused almost exclusively on quantifying barriers to them, rather than on...

There are a large number of studies on the drivers of R&D investment, only a few of them deal with “selection bias” problem resulting from performers not being a random sample from the population of firms. As most of the firms especially in developing countries like Turkey , due to market...

Teknoloji politikalarını üzerine yapılan çalışmalar, AR-GE faaliyetlerinin toplumsal getirisinin özel getirisinden daha yüksek olduğunu göstermiş ve AR-GE destek programlarının teknolojik değişimin hızını ve yönünü etkilemekteki önemini vurgulamıştır. AR-GE destek...