Areas of Interest:

• Economics of Innovation and Technological Change
• Foreign Direct Investment and its implications for MENA countries
• Determinants of economic  catching up in the era of globalization
• Industrial policy, technology and innovation policies

Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000
• M.A., Econometrics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1991
• B.A., Economics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1988

Experience:

• Professor and Chair, Department of Science and Technology Policy Studies, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (October 2014 – Present).
• Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology Policy Studies, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2009 –2014).
• Expert at the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Division of Science, Technology and Innovation Policies, Ankara (part time) (2007–2008).

Latest Publications:

• Türkiye Ekonomisinde İthal İkamesinin Yükselemeyişinin Nedenleri ve Teknolojik Değişme Süreçlerine Etkisi Üzerine Düşünceler (About the Factors that Impeded the Rise of Import Substitution in Turkey and their Impact on Technological Change”), chapter 18 in M. Tiryakioğlu (ed.) Türkiye’nin Yerli Üretimi ve Politik Ekonomisi (Political Economy of Domestic Production in Turkey), 2021, Bilgi Universitesi Yayınları, Istanbul.
• “Türkiye’de Akademik Girişimcilik” (Academic Entrepreneurship in Turkey) in I. S. Akçomak, B. Beyhanlıoğlu, D. Cetindamar and V.S. Tandogan (eds), “Türkiye’nin Teknoloji-Tabanlı Girişmcilik Öyküsü” (Technology-based Entrepreneurship in Turkey), 2020, Bilgi Universitesi Yayinlari, Istanbul (in press) (with H. Konaç).
• “Does government support for private innovation matter? Firm-level evidence from two catching-up countries”, Research Policy, 2017, 46, 219-237 (with K. Szczygielski, W. Grabowski and VS. Tandogan)
• “Analysing R&D Activities of Foreign Enterprises in Emerging Economies: Lessons from Turkey”, in: David A. Dyker (Ed.), World Scientific Reference on Globalisation in Eurasia and the Pacific Rim: Foreign Direct Investment, World Scientific and Imperial College Press, 2016 (with Erkan Erdil).