Innovation model generation based on triple helix collaboration: Case of Turkey

Today, the socio-economic developments of the countries are named after information age, and it is not possible to stay out of global developments. Innovation has an important place in today's economy. There has been a transition from giant factories to offices, working conditions' ways have changed together with the ICT, and the women's contributions to economy have considerably increased. It has been uttered that being bindingly creative, innovative, productive and sensitive to environment has been the reality of the century. It has been determined that economy can gain force through the natural resources, powerful human resources, creativeness, technology, sustainable innovation system and network structures. Carrying out innovation can only be possible through confirming to the abovementioned system. Models and developments belonging to the innovation ecosystem taking place in the literature are historically analyzed for Turkish models. The existed government explicated Turkey's objective as "being one of the first five economies of the world". On the route to attain this objective, the economic developments were chronologically presented in the literature part in order to be able to scrutinize Turkey's conditions of competing in the global market. As innovation strategies have an important place in the world market, the innovation models and university-industry-state cooperation are examined. Successful countries, which have established their innovation strategies beforehand, determined in the analysis and discussion chapters have been compared and contrasted with Turkey on the basis of the data collected from the GII, OECD, and WIPO and the results were thoroughly assessed. In line with the results of these analyses, Turkey's situation was determined and the areas in which Turkey would improve were detected, as well. Depending on the Triple Helix Model, a study proposing a model for Turkey was explicated on the basis of the literature, analysis and discussion chapter of the thesis. Turkey has the features that will carry the country to success such as population properties, geopolitical structure, being on the routes of commerce and trade and having vast amount of variable resources, if the resources are managed to be used in a systematic way. Turkey has the capacity for using the resources owned by the country systematically, monitoring the data through assessment and taking steps forward via the lessons to be taken from failures.