Financial constraints to innovation activities: Revealed barriers versus deterring barriers

In the last decades, competition has showed its pressure on markets by the globalization. Competition forces market to be more knowledge based. Firms change the quality and variety of the goods/services according to the needs of the market. While they are seeking for profit and taking competitive advantage over the market the creation of knowledge is a necessity. In this paper, we examine the hampering factors on the innovation, which are financial obstacles. Hampering factors have two possible effects on firms' decision to introduce innovation, revealed and deterring obstacles. The nature and the degree of the perception of financial obstacles to innovation is investigated by firm level data from Turkish CIS 2006 and CIS 2010. The estimations are done by using Multivariate Probit Models and Ordered Probit Models. According to our findings categorizing firms by their size and foreign ownership are useful for the consideration of financial obstacles. The assessments of barriers are important for the firms who engage in 5 or above innovative activities. Innovatively active firms in CIS 2006 are more likely to face financial barriers to innovation than firms in CIS 2010. Highly innovatively active firms are more likely to assess barriers as highly important. Keywords: Innovation, Financial Barriers, Revealed Barriers, Deterring Barriers