İnovasyonun Çevreci Yüzü ve Türkiye

Abstract

Impact of the activities of people is increasing and nature becomes more insufficient to meet it. Impacts of businesses that perform many activities are inherently more than individuals. Innovation activity which is a business activity to obtain competitiveness is separated from other activities in terms of an important point. While doing other business activities it is important to avoid making negative impact to environment but while performing innovation activity it is also important having aspect to reduce or eliminate the negative impact of other business activities in addition to becoming sensitive to the environment. Type of innovation with this aspect is placed in the literature with different definitions on the same axis like green / ecological / environmental / sustainable innovation. There are three powers as supply, demand and regulations that drive this innovation type as considered environment oriented innovation. The aim of this study is to evaluate Turkey in the context of these three powers. While it has been seen that Turkey get along well about regulations with international supports, it has been considered that further efforts are needed to supply and demand factor.