Some Critical Issues in Innovation and Economic Development:Lessons from the Recent Turkish Experience


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Balcı Y.

PROCEDIA COMPUTER SCIENCE, cilt.158, sa.1, ss.609-624, 2019 (Scopus) identifier

Özet

The Turkish experience reveals that simply increasing the expenditures on inputs of innovation per se may not return as improvements in innovation. Particularly, making the necessary adjustments and management of details (fine-tuning effect) and components that feed innovation, as well as the general policies, such as, improving effectiveness of R&D expenditures and supports are key determinants of achieving innovation goals. Human resources planning according to the new skill requirements and occupations of the information society, and transforming the education system to an analytical learning from the rote learning based system are other highlighted issues. In this respect, the key policy is to change the main characteristics of examinations, especially the central ones. In addition, as a basic strategy of development, an industrial designs based strategy is recommended. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the 3rd World Conference on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Keywords: Innovation; development; R&D; designs; rote learning