Aykut Lenger

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• Ph.D
• Professor (Full) at Ege University

This study investigates the effects of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection on economies by proposing a three-pole global economy model. The main proposition of the study is that the classical two-pole approach (north-south) does not reflect the technological heterogeneity and conflicts within the developing world. Therefore, a three-pole...

This paper analyzes the inter-industry effects of a technological change on the employment in the Turkish manufacturing industry case over the 1985–1998 period. The inter-industry effects are calculated using input-output tables; the technological change is estimated as the growth of total factor productivity. The calculated simple employment multi...

Purpose-This paper attempts to analyse the empirical link between economic growth and the external shocks in a small open developing economy, Turkey, focusing on the nonlinearity between the dynamics for the 1992-2011 period. Design/methodology/approach-This paper examines the effects of trade and financial openness and oil price, the most importan...

Although economics is a social science 1, it exhibits a heterogeneous character, and thus, it almost deserves a privilege of being classified under the title of both natural and social sciences. Because, among other social sciences, economics is the closest one to natural sciences, and perhaps even a proposition that ‘it stands somewhere in between...

Bölgesel ekonomilerin gelişme deneyimlerinde devletin rolü, Keynesyen bakış açısının ötesine geçmiş ve 1950’lerden başlayarak gelişen kalkınma iktisadı, çeşitli okulların etkisiyle evrilerek, kamu harcamalarının gerekip gerekmediği değil; hangi alana yatırım yapılması gerektiği sorusu etrafında tartışmaları sürdürmüştür. Yeni bölgesel kalkınma anla...

This paper investigates the role of state played in the regional innovation systems through state universities and legal and institutional set-up within Turkey. Initially, the paper will discuss the lack of regional perspective in policy-making that, until very recently, was predominant in Turkey. Secondly, the paper examines two salient laws that...

(This paper is in Turkish) This paper investigates the role of state played in the regional innovation systems through state universities and legal and institutional setup in Turkey. After a discussion of the lack of regional perspective in policy-making until very recently, the paper examines two salient laws that have ramifications for regional e...

FDI has been considered by many development economists as an important channel for transfer of technology to developing countries. It is suggested that modern, advanced technologies introduced by multinational firms can diffuse to domestic firms through spillovers. In this paper, we study innovation and technology transfer activities of domestic an...

The objective of this paper is to estimate efficiency in manufacturing activities in some selected countries in Europe and to provide an answer to the question of whether or not contiguity to an efficient country contributes to the efficiency levels of manufacturing industries. The Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) is conducted for a limited sampl...

FDI has been considered by many development economists as an important channel for transfer of technology to developing countries. It is suggested that modern, advanced technologies introduced by multinational firms can diffuse to domestic firms through spillovers. In this paper, we study innovation and technology transfer activities of domestic an...

Bu calisma, Turkiye’de devletin bolgesel yenilik sistemlerinde devlet universiteleri ve yasal ve kurumsal altyapi araciligiyla oynadigi rolu incelemektedir. Yakin zamana kadar, bolgesel bakis acisinin eksikligi tartisildiktan sonra, bolgesel iktisat icin onemli yansimalari bulunan iki onemli yasa uzerinde durulmaktadir. Teknoloji gelistirme bolgele...

Industry clusters in a region represent a material basis for an innovation-based economy. The paper aims to explore the Turkish industry clusters by examining the inter-industry selling and purchasing relationships. The 1990 Turkish input-output table is used to identify the similarities between selling and purchasing patterns of 60 manufacturing i...

In this paper, we try to link the system view of innovation to micro view of dynamic capability argument since we consider it is a better tool in understanding the technological change in developing countries. The conventional catch-up argument cannot serve us in this task. In our analysis, MNCs and their role in user-producer format are given spec...

This paper examines the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) as the creator and diffuser of new and superior technologies. If these firms fulfil this attributed role, then they are expected to generate some spillovers to domestic industries in host economies. Theoretical and empirical studies propose that domestic technological capability is a...

The article aims to identify industry clusters in Turkey by examining inter-industry selling and purchasing relationships. The 1990 Turkish input-output table is used to identify similarities between selling and purchasing patterns of the 60 manufacturing industries and derive a matrix that describes relative linkages between them. The article also...

This paper measures technical efficiency and technical and total factor productivity changes by estimating a translog stochastic frontier production function for the Turkish manufacturing industry in selected provinces. This method incorporates technical change and has time-varying technical efficiency effects. The stochastic frontier function was...

One of the main concerns of the studies dealing with competitiveness and growth accounting is productivity. However, the overall consideration of productivity on the national level leads us to ignore the fact that productivity rates may diversify among regions within a country. A comparative analysis of productivity on the regional level might prov...

One of the main concerns of the studies dealing with competitiveness and growth accounting is productivity. However, the overall consideration of productivity on the national level leads us to ignore the fact that productivity rates may diversify among regions within a country. A comparative analysis of productivity on the regional level might prov...

This paper examines the role of MNCs (MNCs) as the creator and diffuser of new and superior technologies. If these firms fulfil their this attributed role, then they are expected to generate some spillovers to domestic industries in host economies. Theoretical and empirical studies propose that domestic technological capability is also important in...

1. Outline There are two strands of the literature in development economics that have attracted substantial interest in the last couple of decades: the importance of technological change for long term economic growth and the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the process of economic development. Studies on technological change emphasize the...

This thesis was motivated by the importance of technological capability for economic growth process in developing countries. The main objective of this study is to analyze the creation of technological capability in the Turkish manufacturing industry and to set out opportunities and impediments for technological development by ascribing special emp...