Working Paper #2010-030
Entrepreneurship and the national system of innovation - What is missing in Turkey?
Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative
than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper
allows to assess whether this low level of innovative activities is
related to a lack of entrepreneurial behaviour and/or to the weaknesses
of the Turkish innovation system. Exploring a unique firm level survey
realized among 50,000 small- and medium-sized enterprises, we seek to
evaluate the impact of firms’ behaviour and choices in the presence of
entrepreneurial, technological, institutional, and market opportunities,
in an emerging country context. Our results highlight the importance of
policy measures in building innovative capabilities.
- Keywords
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- entrepreneurship
- national systems of innovation
- SMEs
- innovative capabilities
- emerging economies
- JEL codes
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- O01
- O33
- L26
- UNU-MERIT
- Working
- Papers
- ISSN
- 1871-9872
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Bascavusoglu-Moreau, E. (2010). Entrepreneurship and the national system of innovation - What is missing in Turkey? (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2010-030). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=3937