The analysis of the efficiency of companies in developing technology regions using data envelopment analysis: The example of Firat Techno city

Competition, emerging with rapid change and development in technology, has made it necessary to be the producer of innovations rather than to follow innovation and change alone. Universities are the locomotive of innovation production in a country. The developed countries realizing that condition make their universities and industries cooperate with each other. As a result of that cooperation, they transform knowledge and technology into economical benefits by producing the products with higher technology and value. To achieve those benefits, giving enough support to the universities and prioritizing the universities in terms of producing technology are rather significant. Techno cities enable science that is developed at the universities turn into technology that could be used in industry. Furthermore, they support entrepreneurship via some tools such as incubator and risk capital funds. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the efficiencies of the companies operating at Fırat Techno City. Additionally, the requirements to make the Techno City companies more efficient are tried to be specified. The method of Data Envelopment Analysis has been used in terms of the companies' effectiveness measurement, the essential rectification study has been made to increase the efficiency of 28 companies, that are not active, out of 47 in accordance with the results obtained with the result of the analysis; as a result of the assessment, the essential offers have been developed to make the companies more efficient and much better.