Firmalar arası işbirliklerinin inovasyona etkisinin analizi: Ankara İvedik Organize Sanayi Bölgesi medikal sektörü

Despite the general idea of collaboration within clusters leads more innovative activities, there is not enough empirical work for justifying. This thesis examines the relation between inter-firm collaboration and innovation within Medical Sector Cluster firms of Ivedik Organized Industrial Zone in Ankara, Turkey. A questionnaire is applied to 44 firms of the cluster to collect data and measure the firms' collaboration existed for innovation, to find the innovation dynamics that characterize the cluster and to see how collaboration is carried out between firms. Results implied that firms tend not to collaborate within the cluster, therefore there is not a significant relation between collaboration and innovation within the cluster although innovative activities exists. Reluctance of the firms to collaborate was explained by trust problems and by the fact that most firms procure technologies from outside of Turkey. This thesis also provides some useful recommendations for further studies on the collaboration and innovation topics within clusters of Turkey.