Trade liberalization and innovation decisions of firms: A case study for Turkish manufacturing industries

2000-11-01
Pamukcu, Mehmet Teoman
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The purpose of this paper is the identification of determinants, and the assessment of their influence, of the decision to innovate in Turkish manufacturing firms, with an emphasis on the impact of trade liberalization. A binomial logit model is used to assess the influence of explanatory variables on the probability that firms will innovate. Size, market structure, and profitability exert a positive impact on that probability. Competition on international markets, international technology transfers, skill level of the workforce, a lower degree of vertical integration, and price level all have a positive influence. Competition on domestic markets, acquisition of technology licenses by local firms, and foreign direct investment do not exert a statistically significant effect on the innovation decisions of firms.
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/78310
7th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey, (26-29 October,2000)
Science and Technology Policy Research Center (TEKPOL), Conference / Seminar

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M. T. Pamukcu, “Trade liberalization and innovation decisions of firms: A case study for Turkish manufacturing industries,” presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey, (26-29 October,2000), Amman, Jordan., 2000, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/78310.
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