Erkan Erdil

Erkan Erdil
Middle East Technical University | METU · TEKPOL Research Center - Science and Technology Policy Studies and Department of Economics

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October 1992 - August 2015
Middle East Technical University
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Publications (85)
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This study aims to share the author's views on how the core idea innovation policy perspective methodology (CIIPPM) and its application, the sector of sectors (SOFSs), can increase the achievement rate of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN SDGs). We consider that significant improvement in this regard can be achieved by cop...
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The international commitment to achieving a sustainable environment, health, and development needs to be accelerated. This study proposes an approach that has the potential to achieve a sustainable environment, health, and economic development based on each individual‘s sustainable development, which requires the necessary technical and institution...
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We examine the association between wealth and health using economic growth and development indicators and body mass index as the proxy variable for health. Empirically, the economic indicators utilized are gross domestic product per capita, human capital, overall and manufacturing productivities, and savings. We estimate our models using the fixed...
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Using a micro dataset from labour force survey of Turkey and employing a multinomial logistic regression, this paper examines the determinants of mere overeducation, mere field of study mismatch and full-mismatch (who are both overeducated and field of study mismatched simultaneously). The target group consists of full-time wage-based employees who...
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Collaboration networks are the main mechanisms through which regional innovation capacities are enhanced. These networks have been analyzed by using data either on research projects or patents. However, analyzing only one type of network can limit our understanding of regional innovation dynamics. In this paper, we investigate the drivers of networ...
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The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of research and development (R&D) tax incentives in generating additional business R&D expenditures in Turkey by applying propensity score matching (PSM) to correct any selection bias and to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT). Since the empirical literature lacks meas...
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Purpose This study aims to understand the impacts of Covid-19 on the progression of digitalization of banks in an emerging market. For this purpose, business model canvas (BMC) is used as a theoretical framework to explore these effects on each business elements of Turkish Banks’ business strategies. Design/methodology/approach Data are collected...
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The Technological Innovation System (TIS) is a theoretical approach to the analysis of a new technology's diffusion dynamics. The development and establishment of market-related structures are essential for maturing a TIS and its long-term success, especially at the beginning of sectoral development. In this paper, we focus on market formation in t...
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Using a micro dataset from labor force survey of Turkey, this paper estimates the effects of covariates on wages by employing a quantile regression method, with special emphasis on the effect of overlapping mismatch. The analyses are conducted separately for two target groups: the employees who graduated from (i) higher education and (ii) vocationa...
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The aim of this paper is two folds. First, we perform a review of empirical research that report the vertical mismatch and/or field of study mismatch in Turkey. Second, we provide additional evidence from two perspectives which are (i) change in vertical mismatch and field of study mismatch over time and (ii) their overlapping mismatch. Using datas...
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In this study, we examined the relationship between participating in FP and international co-authorship patterns by using a gravity model with proximity dimensions. Our estimates generally confirm the literature about the effect of various proximity types on scientific collaboration. We found that spatial proximity still matters for the cooperation...
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Hinging on the collaboration-induced knowledge diffusion literature, this paper aims at investigating how the landscape of knowledge production and diffusion has changed over the years and whether there is evidence of knowledge convergence among European regions. Using the European Union Framework Programme data from 1984 to 2016 and network analys...
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This study aims to construct a theoretical framework for the usage of cryptocurrencies together with fiat currencies in a coexistence economy to estimate the future effects of cryptocurrencies on the world economy. In this model, Bitcoin is used as a representative cryptocurrency, the uncertainties behind it are taken into consideration measuring b...
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Son dönemde sayıları giderek artan endeksler ve sıralama pratikleri üniversitelerin başarılı öğrencileri ve araştırmacıları çekmesi için bir pazar dinamiği yaratmakta ve üniversiteler arası rekabeti neredeyse serbest piyasa koşullarına tabi tutmaktadır. Endekslerle oluşturulan bu yapay üniversite borsası piyasa koşulları içerisinde rekabeti artırma...
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This study aims to detect differences in the features of the proposed and supported projects for different priority technology areas (PTAs) of the TUBITAK Prioritized Areas R&D Grant Program together with the analysis on the output, input, and behavioral additionality of the supported projects. Non-existence of a previous study on the evaluation of...
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The tourism sector is directly and enormously influenced by COVID-19. The main aim of this study is to investigate the effect of COVID-19 on health tourism income and tourism income. The tourism income and health tourism income of Turkey are used for the 2002Q1-2020Q4 period for time series analysis. For both variables, the structural break is dete...
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This volume studies the enduring complexity of EU–Turkey relations in all their thematic dimensions and with a view to offering future scenarios. It accomplishes three important aims. First, following a narratives analysis, the chapters analysing identity, politics, the economy, security, migration and energy identify the key dynamics that impact t...
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Renewable Energy (RE) Sector is a dynamic and rapidly growing sector in Turkey. First movements started in 1990s in parallel to growing interest in sustainable and clean energy generation and became widespread with new technological developments and decreasing costs of emerging renewable energy technologies. Especially after 2013, we observe signif...
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The existing global challenges, from climate change to global inequality, need global solutions that could only be produced by a systemic approach. An effective global innovation system (GIS) may integrate innovation activities to deal with these challenges. We argue that creating a GIS is possible via the transformation of existing socio-technical...
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The smart specialization strategy (S3) has been accepted as a solution for the European Union (EU) to catch up United States in productivity, R&D intensity, etc. The process of research and innovation strategies for smart specialization (RIS3) is described in six steps: the regional/national context, governance, elaboration, identification of prior...
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Network between the firms reveal the knowledge spillovers which is inevitable for economic growth of a country for neoclassical economists. In this study, existence of intra-OIZ and intra-industry knowledge spillovers in Ankara is tested by the help of an export decision function. As it considers the spatial dependence between the regional units, t...
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In the last century, universities have played a significant role in stimulating technological change and innovation. The recent decades have witnessed a change in the mission of the universities, namely their social mission in disseminating knowledge and interacting more broadly with the surrounding society, in addition to conduct education and res...
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During the last decades the number of universities extending their initial education and teaching missions towards the triple helix and knowledge triangle paradigms, e.g. knowledge and technology transfer and innovation has increased substantially. In line with this evolution the term ‘entrepreneurial university’ became increasingly popular however...
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Innovation has become a frequently quoted and lived central missions of universities. This book demonstrates however that the mission is not constant. New challenges and opportunities emerge at different moments in history and there are currently a number of important strategic orientations that universities need to consider and balance. Universiti...
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This study focuses on how Turkey’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can participate in global markets. In fact, developing countries provide a means for accelerating the development of enterprises and countries, providing openings that developing country enterprises can exploit to upgrade their capabilities. For such enterprises, or local...
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This study analyzes the innovation performance of the European Union in the context of the European Research Area (ERA). Literature related to the Systems of Innovation, network studies, Framework Programs and the European Research Area will be used to establish a theoretical framework for policy analysis. It forms a database from three different r...
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This chapter which is in line with the global pipelines-local buzz framework addresses the collaboration dynamics of ICT researchers from universities of an emerging economy who are mostly benefiting from national funds and do not have dominating or core roles in international R&D networks. It provides a novel taxonomy to identify the degree of glo...
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This study aims to summarize the basic stylized facts regarding the Turkish national research system. Although it seems to be a descriptive study, it takes a generally analytical approach to official documents and statistics at both national and supranational level. It identifies areas that need to be addressed more effectively by the existing poli...
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Yüksekögretim sisteminin yeniden yapilandirilmasi 2012 yilinin çok tartisilacak konularindan birisi olmaya adaydir. Pek çok üniversite bu konudaki görüslerini, genel yapilanmanin ne sekilde olmasi gerektigi konusunda detayli bilgiler içeren raporlar vasitasiyla açiklamislardir. Bu makale gelecegin üniversite örgütlenmesine üniversite-sanayi iliskil...
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İşletmeler için üretim öncesi Ar-Ge süreçlerini yönetebilme: inovasyon ve işbirliği stratejisi.
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This paper investigates the relationship between economic performance and innovation in Turkey, while also taking into account the crucial mediating effect of the institutional environment. We carry out an in-­‐depth analysis of the recent shifts in STI policy making in Turkey. The emphasis is on the innovation support policy instruments, and their...
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Renewable energy sources are increasingly coming into use. This notably counts for non-food based biomass sources, including those producing wood-based energy. A firm that (re-)directs activities to this area can potentially create value. The external and internal environment of the firm sets the outline for the value creation potential. Important...
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This chapter investigates how technological developments implemented in the production processes and organizational structures of small and medium sized enterprises affect the skills and therefore the employment of young workers in these businesses. The furniture sector in the greater region of Ankara in Turkey is explored in this chapter because i...
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This chapter summarizes the results of the project titled Academic Patenting in Europe (APE-INV). The key aims of the project are the creation and diffusion of a harmonized database on academic patenting in Europe. The database allows for the investigation of the economic returns of academic patenting at the scientist, university, and industry leve...
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This chapter examines the financing patterns of R&D expenditures using data from 38 countries for the period 1980-2006. The major hypothesis is that higher equity financing and higher past stock market valuation are associated with higher R&D expenditures. The evidence supports this hypothesis for firms, especially in market-based countries. The se...
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This paper investigates the effects of ICT on economic growth in Turkey and other OECD member countries. After discussing the theoretical relationships between ICT usage and economic growth, we test the positive impact of ICT revolution on economic growth econometrically. In the empirical part of the study, we perform panel data analyses by employi...
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Recent evidence strongly suggests that firms' joint action may be insufficient for the creation of clusters in order to face the new competitive pressures of globalization. To cope with these pressures, the authors argue that governments can play an important role in the process of creating the development of clusters. Based on a theoretical framew...
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By harnessing technological progress, good innovation policies can help enhance economic growth. New research offers additional insights into the design and application of such innovative policies. Industrial Dynamics, Innovation Policy, and Economic Growth through Technological Advancements examines the nature of the process of technological chang...
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Emerging economies have played an important role in the internationalization of R&D activities at least since the 1990s. Turkey, an emerging economy and at same time an accession country to the European Union which signed a Customs Union Agreement with the EU already in 1995, is no exception. In-depth face-to-face semi-structured interviews were co...
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Emerging nanotechnologies bring a new challenge for developing countries to improve knowledge and technology transfer between universities and firms. In developing countries, weaker ties between academia and the industry seem to be one of the main barriers to the dissemination of nanotechnology innovations. This study aims to understand individual...
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This paper aims to determine (i) the trade flow equation for Turkey by using the gravity equation, (ii) the role of EU in Turkey's trade and whether the Customs Union of EU that Turkey entered in 1996 made a deviation in Turkey's trade flows. Turkey was a closed economy in late 1970s and has gradually become an open economy in these 30 years. Durin...
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We have focused on the effect of nutrition on per capita income as well as for the contribution of nutrition in income differences among countries. In particular, whether accounting for nutritional differences will reduce the size of the unexplained residual variance currently attributed to differences in productivity among countries with different...
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This chapter tests the impact of ICT on economic growth for underdeveloped and developing countries by using a panel dataset for the period of 1995-2006. The authors first develop the theory of the relationship between ICT and economic growth. They show that ICT-capital has a positive effect both on long-run and transitional income per capita, if i...
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Whether the convergence occurs is one of the important issues in economic growth. Besides occurrence of convergence, another important issue in the theory of economic growth is whether the growth of per-capita income depends on the ratio of physical to human capital (K/H) where human capital is defined by the education and the worker effort level c...
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It is suggested that developing countries could catch up with the developed world if only they attained increased levels of human development. The links between growth and human development are complex even with human capital its self and human capital to the physical capital. Besides large disparities in indicators of human well-being, such as lif...
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This study investigates the Granger-causality relationship between real per capita GDP and real per capita health care expenditure by employing a large macro panel data set with a VAR representation. The findings verify that the dominant type of Granger-causality is bidirectional. In instances that we found one-way causality, the pattern is not hom...
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This paper presents the results of a study investigating how sustainable development can be integrated in Turkish science and technology policies. It contributes to the elaboration of the national sustainable development strategy and to the implementation of the EU acquis. The project’s originality for Turkey lies in its methodology (a participator...
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This paper tests the impact of ICT on economic growth for underdeveloped and developing countries by using a panel dataset for the period of 1995-2006. We first develop the theory between ICT and economic growth. We show that ICT capital has a positive effect both on long-run and transitional income per capita, if it is considered as a factor of pr...
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This paper aims to determine the role of EU in Turkey’s trade flows by using the gravity model. It also aims to test whether the Customs Union (of EU) that Turkey entered in 1996 made a deviation in Turkey’s trade flows. Regional trade agreements on the one hand create new trade opportunities (trade creation effect). On the other hand, these agreem...
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There is a vast amount of literature focusing on the relationship between wage and technology. A panel of 13 countries from 1980 to 1998 period is used in attempt to find an answer whether technology has any effect on gender wage differential in manufacturing industry. The results indicate that as technological change accelerates approximated by th...
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114 Özlem Özkanli (Turkey), Erkan Erdil (Turkey), Erdal Akdeve (Turkey) Innovation and relationships in industrial districts: the case of Turkey Abstract Industrial districts (ID) and small scale industrial estates are important regional development tools that have been ex-tensively utilized by the Turkish authorities as part of Turkish industriali...
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Organized Industrial Districts are important regional development tools that have been extensively utilized by the Turkish authorities as part of Turkish industrialization program, with varying degrees of success. The empirical part of the study is carried out in Ankara, Sincan Industrial district. The study investigates the intra- and inter-firm r...
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The estimation of demand equations provides the earliest example of the use of statistical and econometric techniques on economic data. It is possible to identify two distinct approaches to the estimation of demand equations. The first and original approach concentrated on the demand for particular goods by paying attention to any special character...
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This study aims to analyze rural household work and leisure time and how it is allocated among various activities and by socio-economic characteristics of individuals. The analysis is based on a survey carried out in two central Anatolian villages. Three time use questionnaires are administered between May-October 2003 during two different days of...
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This study provides evidence on income-health causality by employing a large micro panel data set with a VAR representation. The findings verify that dominant type of causality is bidirectional which cast doubt on the performance OLS estimates in the literature. Moreover, one-way causality pattern is not similar for different income groups. One-way...
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The motivation of the study is to form a ground for further research on the issue of the effect of electronic commerce on economic variables that has been supported by empirical models. In this respect, a considerable part of the study is devoted to the discussion of the building significant relationship between technology, electronic commerce and...
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Recently, relative demand for multi-skilled labor has increased sharply. Information and education became the most important factor when determining the role of labor at work. Especially, the intense rise of microelectronic Technologies changed the structure of production after 1970s. By the effect of changing structure of production and growing co...
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This study aims to compare the available evidence on inter-industry wage structure for industrialized and developing countries and to find whether the industry wage differentials are consistent and stable independent of time and space. Moreover, it tries to clarify some of the determinants of industry wage differentials. International evidence supp...
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This study aims to determine the relations between poverty and the dynamics of Turkish labor market. In this context, two secondary aims are also targeted. First is to demonstrate the situation of the poor in Turkey with international comparisons by employing various socio-economic measures. Second, is to clarify the poverty problem in Turkey in th...
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This study aims to propose a model for incentive contracts that target to reduce the output variance. It is a general type of various models suggested in the literature in this framework. The most important contribution of the proposed model is that a variety of observed contracts, for instance bonus plans and stock options can be derived from it b...

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