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Technoparks in Turkey: A Descriptive Study

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The literature in Turkey lacks empirical analyses where there is a need for evaluations on technoparks’ performance. The government of the Republic of Turkey enacted the Technology Development Zones Law in 2001 to support establishing technoparks to increase research and development investment. In this chapter, we present an empirical analysis to understand contributors of technopark growth in Turkey. Analysis covariates are the distance between the technopark and the associated university, park age that represents years that technoparks have been active, and quality of associated university that measures research quality of the partnered university.

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    Sixth plan used Gross National Product (GNP), later plans used Gross Domestic Product (GDP). There is no clear source on why they took GNP in the sixth plan and changed it to GDP in later plans.

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    URAP has two different measuring methods. One of the scores is used for international comparison where a total score of 600 is distributed to indicators of number of articles (21%), citation (21%), total documents (10%), article impact total (18%), citation impact total (15%), and international collaboration (15%) (http://www.urapcenter.org/2018/country.php?ccode=TR&rank=all). The other one is used to rank only Turkish universities. It includes total reference, total scientific document, score of number of PhD graduates, and score of number of students per faculty where each domain has equal weight on the total score (http://tr.urapcenter.org/2018/2018_t9.php).

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    Nilay Unsal

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Unsal, N. (2019). Technoparks in Turkey: A Descriptive Study. In: Amoroso, S., Link, A., Wright, M. (eds) Science and Technology Parks and Regional Economic Development. Palgrave Advances in the Economics of Innovation and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30963-3_8

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