THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN R & D INVESTMENT RATES AND INNOVATION CAPACITY IN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES

Abstract

In today's world, companies should give importance to R & D activities in order to be able to continue their activities
permanently. Companies that give importance to R & D investments will gain competitive advantage. The rate of investment
in R & D activities is among the benchmarking criteria for R & D development level. For this purpose, the R & D investments
that we consider the most important in Turkey by the Istanbul Chamber of Industrial Enterprises in 1000 determined each year
is designated as the main body of the study. The universe of the study consists of 286 industrial companies selected from these
firms. R & D investment rates and the number of R & D personnel employed by the firms in the research showed that there
was a significant difference between the innovation skills and the variance analysis. As a result of the analysis, it was found
that product, process and management innovation showed a significant difference according to the R & D investment rate.