A research on the effects of r&d support mechanisms on firm performance

In today's information age, the desire to gain competitive advantage in the global sense has made innovation and related R&D activities as a necessity. In the sense of supporting R&D activities, countries shape their policies in this direction. Firms are divided into different scales according to various variables such as sales, number of staff, the state of the sector in which they are based. According to these scales, qualifications and incentive rates of incentive policies become different. Incentives that provided by the countries are divided into 2 groups as taxable and non-taxable (grant or payback). Tax incentives mean that they will be taken less or not at all depending on the specified periods. Non-taxable incentive is the repayment of the declared budget by the government to the operation at the determined rate through the R&D-qualified projects for the invitation of various government agencies. When take a look at Turkey, incentive for R&D activities is increasing in order to increase economic development. The incentive provided by various institutions such as TÜBİTAK, KOSGEB, which is affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Industry and the Ministry in order to make the R&D activities determined in the nationally defined 2023 Research, Development and Innovation targets an important factor between the enterprises, by way of increasing budgets. It has become a researching topic that influence degree of this incentives on enterprise performance. In this thesis research which is formed according to the scientific research system, the studies conducted in the previous periods in this context were examined primarily depending on the literature searches. Factors affecting directly firm performance were determined and a survey was prepared with appropriate questions. The survey was applied to the enterprises registered in the Aegean Region Chamber of Industry, which continued its activities in Aegean Region. The statistical analysis performed according to the obtained data demonstrated that the outputs of the government-supported. incentives (product, patent, equipment purchasing, etc.) had positive effect on the performance of the company. The firm title was used in the study and the enterprise and company titles were also defined according to the literature.