The evaluation of innovative and technological management consciousness of leading Turkish firms

This research is conducted on top 250 Turkish firms concerning their R&D abilities and activities. The aim was to investigate the correspondence between theory and practice and consciousness of R&D among these companies. The research sample was determined as 84 firms according to the size of their investment and human resources in R&D abilities and activities. The response rate from the 84 companies that were included in the study was 52.3%. Among the interesting results of this research the following items should be mentioned. Some firms evaluated the R&D activities for new product development as a strategy of their change management. On the other hand, most of the firms evaluated the existing product improvement as their strategy. The firms in the same industry make some collaborative R&D activities in order to reduce R&D costs and to increase R&D efficiency and effectiveness. But it also was found that the level of cooperation for R&D activities among companies was inversely related to the level of technology