Efficiency Analysis of Science and Technology Parks Using Data Envelopment Analysis: Evidence from Turkey

Authors : Necla ARSLAN, Önder BELGİN

Pages : 1667-1674

Doi:10.2339/politeknik.649833

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Publication Date : 2021-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Research and Development insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(R&D); and innovation have a significant impact on the competitiveness of countries. Science and Technology Parks insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(STPs); are an important component of R&D and innovation ecosystems of countries and they aim to increase the university-industry collaboration. This study addresses the efficiency analysis of STPs in Turkey using Data Envelopment Analysis insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(DEA);. For this purpose, an input-oriented DEA model is used to obtain efficiency scores of STPs and 5 of 22 STPs are found to be efficient. After that, to examine the strong and weak areas of STPs six additional Data Envelopment Analysis insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(DEA); models are considered. According to these models, STPs exhibits lower performance in the efficiency of revenue and patents. Finally, STPs are clustered based on efficiency scores as Marketers, Researchers and Low-performers using K-means clustering and we made suggestions for each cluster. The motivation of this study is contributing to policies for increasing the performance and the impact of the STPs in Turkey.
Keywords : Science and technology parks, data envelopment analysis, cluster analysis, efficiency

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