Innovation Policies, Business Creation and Economic Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Growth and Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Solving Technological Change Model by Using Fractional Calculus

      • Tolga Omay, Dumitru Baleanu

      Pages 3-12

   3. Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship, and the Deployment of Technology

      • J.B. Burnham

      Pages 13-35

   4. The Relationship Between the Degree of Innovation and the Development Level of a Country

      • A. Kadir Varoğlu, Ali Riza Köker

      Pages 37-49

   5. The Role of Effective Protection of IP Rights on Economic Growth

      • Yüksel Birinci

      Pages 51-61

   6. Variables Affecting Innovation-Related Competitiveness in Turkey

      • A. Or¸un Sakarya

      Pages 63-83

   7. The Meaning of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

      • Gökhan Çapoğlu

      Pages 85-91

3. Company Innovativeness and Growth

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. The Phenomenology of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

      • Lance B. Kurke

      Pages 95-111

   3. Innovativeness: Is It a Function of the Leadership Style and the Value System of the Entrepreneur?

      • Alev Katrinli, Gulem Atabay, Gonca Gunay, Burcu Guneri, Ahenk Aktan

      Pages 113-135

   4. Ankara Technology Development Zones Within the Context of Innovation Strategies in Turkey

      • Cigdem Varol, N. Aydan Sat, Asli Gurel Ucer, Gulsen Yilmaz

      Pages 137-158

   5. Innovation Ability of Small Firms in Turkish Industrial Clusters: Ankara-Ivedik Industrial Region Case

      • Özlem Özkanli, Erdal Akdeve

      Pages 159-173

4. Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Growth

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 174-174

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   2. Innovation Strategies and Innovation Problems in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Empirical Study

      • Ismail Bakan, Bulent Yildiz

      Pages 177-211

   3. Innovation Policies in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Comparison Between European Union and Turkey

      • Belgin Akçay, Başak Söylemez

      Pages 213-231

   4. Financing for Turkish Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: SMEs Restructuring, Business Plans, and Value-Adding Chains as Tools

      • Klaus Jurgens

      Pages 233-254

   5. Innovation and Restructuring: The Conceptual Dilemma in the Continuous Process Improvement

      • UĞur Zel

      Pages 255-265

   6. How to Address the Turkish Paradox of Innovation to Build a Competitive Economy?

      • Lale Gumusluoglu, Şirin Elçi

      Pages 267-293

5. Back Matter

   Pages 297-299

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It is now apparent to many scholars and practitioners that research and development activities and innovation are the pathways to sustainable economic growth. One also recognizes that delving into a topic as such is rather challenging as it is a multidimensional task. We have learned quite a bit on the innovation-growth relationship of the dev- oped countries based on the extensive research on the topic. However, we are yet to understand the very same process for the developing countries where the challenges are expected to be paramount. There obviously is few empirical and theoretical discussion on this topic. This book dares to provide a succinct discussion on a wide array of issues on the innovation and growth relationship for the developing countries. The book starts off by providing the reader with a promising - ternative to endogenous growth models that entails understanding the effect of variables, such as technological change on growth in cons- erable detail. The next step in the book involves a thorough analysis of economic growth models and how the investment climate affects innovationand entrepreneurship and hence economic growth. Against this background is examined the context of the telecommunications industry in Turkey. Following this, we delve into understanding the radical versusincremental innovationactivities,where itis argued that developing nations are more likely to engage in radical innovation, whereas developing nations are engaged in incremental innovation.

• Business Creation
• Developing Countries
• Economic Development
• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation
• Knowledge Management
• Organizational Creativity
• Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
• Technological Change
• Technology Cluster
• Technology Policy

• Department of Economics, Neslihan Aydogan Cankaya University, Baglica Campus, Turkey

  Neslihan Aydogan

Neslihan Aydgoan is Assistant Professor, Department of Economic, Cankaya University, and Visiting Assistant Professor, Duquesne University, Donahue Graduate School of Business. She has served as an Instructor, University of Maastricht; Visiting Scholar, Carnegi Mellon University, Software Industry Center; and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. She has published on such topics as knowledge management, innovation, entrepreneurship, high-tech industries, and economic development, and is coauthor of Social Capital and Business Development in High-Technology Clusters (Springer, forthcoming, 2008).

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