Ar-Ge Merkezleri ve TURQUALITY Programı Destekleri Odağında Türk İmalat Sanayisinin İnovasyon ve İhracat Performansında Teşviklerin Etkinliği Üzerine Bir İnceleme

While countries in the past, applied incentives to support production, employment and export, today they develop and implement incentive policies that support specialized fields such as R&D, design, branding. Turkey has also developed and implemented various incentives in this direction. One of them is the R&D Center Support, which encourages the development of new technologies and the other is the TURQUALITY Support Program, which encourages the branding of companies in the international market. While it is aimed to increase exports within the scope of the these two supports, product design and development activities are indirectly encouraged. In this respect, in this study, the effects of these two incentives, which provide indirect support to product design and development activities as well as directly supporting R&D and branding, on the export and innovation capacity of the manufacturing industry in Turkey were investigated.