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Spending on Innovation as a Factor of Competitiveness of Market Economies

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International competitiveness is frequent topic in the world’s economic literature. Nowadays, attention is also drawn to the efficiency of the economy in addition to a comparative analysis of economies. The paper presents different approaches of competitiveness and efficiency of the economy and their measurement. The study carried out an analysis of one of the major factors of competitiveness of economies—innovation. Calculations were performed using the method of DEA.

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  1. Department of Mathematical Economics, Wroclaw University of Economics, Wrocław, Poland

    Paweł Dobrzański

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  1. Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey

    Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin

  2. MUFG Union Bank , San Francisco, California, USA

    Hakan Danis

  3. Faculty of Tourism, Istanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Tourism, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ender Demir

  4. Eurasia Business and Economic Society , Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ugur Can

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Dobrzański, P. (2017). Spending on Innovation as a Factor of Competitiveness of Market Economies. In: Bilgin, M., Danis, H., Demir, E., Can, U. (eds) Country Experiences in Economic Development, Management and Entrepreneurship. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46319-3_7

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