An Assessment of Innovation Efficiency in EECA CountriesUsing the DEA Method
Kitapta bölümler > Araştırma Kitabı · 2020
Yazarlar: Rüstem Barış YEŞİLAY, Umut Halaç
Contemporary Issues in Business, Economics and Finance Vol: 104, Araştırma Kitabı, Emerald Ink Publishing, B, Uluslararası, 2020, ss 203-215, İngiltere
Özet
<p>Introduction – In recent years, there has been a growing interest in innovation,</p><p>not only in developed countries but also in developing countries. However, there</p><p>has been limited literature for the developing countries.</p><p>Purpose – The literature on national innovation systems (NIS) mainly consists</p><p>of case studies or qualitative researches aiming to explain the patterns of innovation,</p><p>while the quantitative analysis are limited in explaining the innovation</p><p>capability and efficiency of innovation. This study is unique in a sense that</p><p>it compares the innovation efficiencies of the EECA countries. This chapter</p><p>aims to measure the efficiency of NIS via data envelopment analysis (DEA)</p><p>method.</p><p>Methodology – DEA is used to consider a sample of 18 Eastern European</p><p>and Central Asian (EECA) countries and Turkey. One of the main issues</p><p>is to determine the input and output variables because the available data</p><p>for some of these countries were limited. Therefore, research and development</p><p>expenditure (% of GDP), government expenditure on education, total</p><p>(% of GDP), imports of goods and services (% of GDP) and foreign direct</p><p>investment, net inflows (% of GDP) were determined as input variables.</p><p>Output variables were as follows; patent applications both residents and</p><p>non-residents, high-technology exports (% of manufactured exports) and</p><p>scientific and technical journal articles.</p><p>Findings – Based on the key findings it can be noted that Kazakhstan, Turkey,</p><p>Latvia and Uzbekistan are more efficient in innovation performance compared</p><p>to other EECA countries. Throughout the results of the DEA, these countries</p><p>may develop new policies about their innovation systems to reach out the higher</p><p>performance.</p>