Cooperation Perceptions of Firms for Creating Innovation Ecosystem: An Application in Medical Equipment Sector

Recent policies focus on pr？vate sector based research and development and innovation in order to increase public welfare. Towards this end, Turkey may export technology and know-how provided that quality and productivity in industry are acquired while fleeing from import dependency as mentioned in development plans and vision documents. Universities assume responsibility for providing human capital required to realize this aim. In order to make efficient use of these three bodies, creating innovation ecosystems is a must. Main elements of innovation ecosystem are technological cooperations and innovation networks. Therefore, it is required that industry, as one of main actors, be open to cooperate. To this end, validity and reliability of prepared questionnaire to identify cooperation capacities of firms are made in this study. As a result of exploratory factor analysis, two factors are explored; dyadic cooperation among firms at micro level and cooperation among networks at macro level, relatively. It is also contended that questionnaire may be used once reliability analysis results are acceptable. In addition, some findings and results are shared regarding innovation ecosystem concept and some recommendations are made