Impact of SME Policies on Innovation: The Turkish Case

Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau
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Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau: Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University

No 70, Open Discussion Papers in Economics from The Open University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of innovative capabilities in Turkish SMEs, with a particular emphasis on the impact of recent changes in science and technology policy. Two different analyses are conducted in order to evaluate both the decision to innovate and the propensity to innovate, using a unique firm-level survey realized among 50.000 SMEs. Our results suggest that the new policies did not manage to address the whole issues that are preventing Turkish SMEs to achieve a higher innovative capacity and growth.

Keywords: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises; technological capacity building; innovation; industrial/technology policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L1 O31 O33 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2008-02
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