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    The Effect of R&D Intensity on Innovation Performance: A Country Level Evaluation
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2015) Savrul, Mesut; Incekara, Ahmet
    Globalization led to technological advances and increased information flow which has resulted in the knowledge to turn into be the main drivers of economic growth. Investments in technology and innovation are made to advance economic performance and living standards the innovation process of the countries can be guided by deliberate government policies rather than a spontaneous phenomenon in global economic environment. In this regards the countries willing to make progress in innovation are focusing on innovation investments. However whether this approach which is accurate in terms of firm behavior, is eligible for a country is questionable. In this study the reasons that cause innovation performance and R&D intensity ranks of some countries deviate and regarding their R&D intensity values, why some countries have better or worse innovation outputs than their inputs are discussed in this study. It's concluded that positive environmental factors have great impact on a country in transforming its innovation investments to innovation performance.
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    The Potential of E-commerce for SMEs in a Globalizing Business Environment
    (Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Savrul, Mesut; Incekara, Ahmet; Sener, Sefer
    In an era of globalizing economies many markets become increasingly international and competitive. Technological progress in logistics and distribution enables nearly every business to buy, sell and cooperate on a global scale and even smaller and locally oriented businesses are forced to see themselves in a global context to survive in this new challenging business environment. Although common sense is that the globalization expose SMEs to many challenges the recent literature argues that SMEs can benefit the new environment via e-commerce. In this framework this study presents the issues the SMEs can face in changing business environment and the potential of e-commerce in this new environment. The findings of the study shows that although their size is a disadvantage for SMEs to compete in global platform e-commerce can help them make up however there are several barriers that limit or prevent them from getting into e-commerce which can be handled with public and private support. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.