Assessing the Drivers of R&D Activities of Firms in Developing Countries: Evidence From Turkey

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2014-12-01

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Kalayci, Elif
Pamukcu, Mehmet Teoman

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Research and development (R&D) activities of firms in developing countries (DCs) have been gaining in importance for nationwide economic growth and development, while globalization of the world economy offers a number of opportunities for fostering knowledge-creating activities. Therefore, a better understanding of factors influencing R&D activities of firms in DCs with a view to conceive and implement appropriate policies is firmly on the agenda. In this article, a rich firm-level data set and a new estimation methodology with selection and endogeneity correction are used over the period 2003-2007 to investigate drivers of manufacturing R&D in Turkey. Our results indicate positive effects of foreign direct investment (FDI)-related vertical R&D spillovers, R&D subsidies and distance to technology frontier on R&D intensity, whereas FDI-related horizontal R&D spillovers, firm size and export intensity exert a negative effect.

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Foreign R&D sidies, Heckman selection, Instrumental variables, Turkey

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31608

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

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https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2014.12

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article

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E. Kalayci and M. T. Pamukcu, “Assessing the Drivers of R&D Activities of Firms in Developing Countries: Evidence From Turkey,” EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, pp. 853–869, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31608.