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Thesis Type: Doctorate
Institution Of The Thesis: Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences, İşletme Fakültesi Bölümü, Turkey
Approval Date: 2021
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: GÖKHAN ÖZKAYA
Supervisor: Mehpare Timor
Abstract:
Science,
technology and innovation (STI) policies are of great importance for countries
to reach their sustainable development goals. Numerous global databases have
many indicators that measure and compare the performance of STI policies of
countries. However, many problems arise regarding how to identify, classify and
systematically analyze these indicators in order to measure, monitor and
improve the performance of STI. The study includes a literature review on
global problems and new trends in STI policies, while mentioning the necessity
of an internationally comparable STI indicator set, current STI indicator
studies and efforts, and studies for each continent. In light of these, all the
indicators selected are introduced in detail. The strengths and weaknesses of
the countries in the study in terms of evaluation indicator values are
indicated. After determining the indicator weights objectively with the entropy
method, 40 countries with available data on the determined indicators are
compared with cluster analysis, Gray Relational Analysis (GRA), TOPSIS, VIKOR,
PROMETHEE I-II, ARAS, COPRAS, MULTIMOORA, ELECTRE, SAW and MAUT methods. The
aim of the study is to enable decision-makers, researchers and policy makers to
better understand the STI indicators and their dimensions and to produce more
effective and efficient policies with the perspective of the current literature
on this subject. This study offers a new and original approach with MCDM
methods on this subject. Considering all the results obtained in the study
together, these rankings are compared among themselves and with the rankings
specified in the Global Innovation (2019) and Global Competitiveness (2019)
indices, and it is seen that the results are consistent. In addition, it is
possible to update and publish this study every year with updated data.