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ABSTRACT
THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENTS IN NATIONAL INNOVATION
SYSTEMS: LITERATURE SURVEY
Ġsmail EREN
Süleyman Demirel University, Department of Economics, Master Thesis, 152 pages,
August 2007
Supervising Professor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Murat KARAÖZ
Nearly the last forty years, innovation and the national innovation system
concepts have been one of the most discussed and most studied concepts among the
academic, business and political circles. So, it becomes vital that what this concepts
mean for governments and how should governments evaluate this concepts.
This study aims to examine the role of the governments in innovation
activities as well as in national innovation system and how the government policies
can positively affect innovation activities.
With this respect, in this work, initially in the first chapter, the innovation and
national innovation system concepts explained shortly and then, in the second
chapter, theoretical foundations of the innovation policies examined. Later, in the
third chapter, the types of policies kind of policies that have implemented by the
governments are discussed. Input and output indicators that have been used for
measurement of the success of the governments have been shown.
At the end of the study, in the fourth chapter, innovation systems and policies
of some major countries as well as European Union are evaluated in order to
understand how governments can become efficient in this process with examples.
General evaluations have been made in the conclusion section.
Keywords: innovation, national innovation system, the role of governments,
government policies, input and output indicators