Determinants Of Innovation: A Cross-Country Data Analysis

In this study investigates, whether competitiveness, gross domestic product (GDP), labor market efficiency, patent applications and technology readiness level are the determinants of innovation by using regression analysis and the data belong to the countries examined in the global competitiveness report. In addition to regression analysis, by using the variables, that have a statistically significant relationship between innovation, it is constructed a neural network (NN) model. In both models, the results are consistent each other and NN model determined as the best to explain the ability of relationship between variables for innovation estimates. The relationship between innovation and other explanatory variable is statistically significant except patent application. The patent applications variable doesn't provide an assumptions related with statistical methods. It excluded from the analysis for this reason. The relationship between variables found positive as expected. But the coefficient of GDP is very low near zero, so the effect is very weak as surprisingly.