Abstract:
In Turkey, increasing focus to the concept of innovation underlined the importance of the related
institutions’ role in the economic agenda. Hence, a clear understanding of the functions of the
actors that makes up the country’s innovation system is important in policy formulation stages.
Accordingly, the goal of this literature review is to analyze institutions’ duties that are active in
the National System of Innovation and to assess recent developments’ contribution to the
innovation policy targets. It has been observed that Turkey has a strong institutional
infrastructure, but also has some problems concerning firm-based innovation, university-industry
cooperation and development of innovation inputs
