The impacts of R&D expenditures on the manufacturing sectors export performance in Turkey and comparative emering markets

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the impacts of different research and development (R&D) activities on the export performance of manufacturing sector’s basic divisions for Turkey and comparative emerging economies. In the light of this aim, Turkey and seven comparative emerging countries were selected to analyze impact of R&D on export performance. The Fixed Effect Model of panel data analysis has been used in the study and the model results suggest the existence of positive significant relationship between gross domestic R&D activities and export performance. The study shows that R&D activities support chemical sector, machinery sector and sector of manufactured goods classified by material exports. As these industries rely on invention and technology, the empirical results support hypotheses put forth in this dissertation. The models in the second part of the study analyze how government and business enterprise R&D activities effect export performances. These results illustrated that the different sources of R&D activities have diverse impacts on manufacturing sectors’ export performances.