CONCLUSION AND FURTHER STUDIES In the timeframe of four years in
which the index was implemented, universities have increased the
level of performance in critical indicators, such as R&D
projects, national and
international patent applications and grants, start-up firms and
scientific publications.
This represents the overall role of EIUI in providing positive
competition between universities based on awareness building with a
focus on entrepreneurial and innovation activities.
The experiences of Turkey will further be of value to expand the
scope to an international level in which universities from
different geographies can be included in the sample.
Similarly, an international index to promote entrepreneurial and
innovative universities may be developed in collaboration with
international institutions.
ABSTRACTFostering the innovative capacity and entrepreneurship
in universities has recently been an important policy tool in
Turkey and highly supported by The Supreme Council for Scienceand
Technology (SCST), the highest STI decision making body for STI
policies. As a decree of SCST the Entrepreneurial and Innovative
University Index (EIUI) wasprepared for the first time in Turkey in
2012. By ranking universities according to their entrepreneurial
and innovative performances, this index increases
competitivenessamong universities, hence fostering an
entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystem . The universities are
ranked according to 23 indicators under 5 pillars annually and
theannouncement of the top 50 universities is undertaken by the
Minister of Science, Industry and Technology of Turkey. It is
observed that after the implementation of the EIUI,universities
have increased the level of the ir performance s in critical
indicators , such as R&D projects, national and international
patent applications and grants, start-up firmsand scientific
publications. The index is now in its fifth year with important
experiences and contribution to the national innovation system of
Turkey.
IN COOPERATION WITH
178 UNIVERSITIES9 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
49 TECHNOPARKS
5 PILLARS 23 INDICATORS75 DATA COMPONENTS~1 MILLION DATA
CELLS
METHODOLOGY Data collection : Public records, universities,
technoparks
Qualification of data and data validation :Communication with
universities, support desk at TUBITAK
Imputting for missing values: No missing values
Identifying and replacing outliers: Positive outliers arehigher
than the mean across all universities plus twice thestandard
deviation
Transforming data: I f the indicators are highly volatile
interms of skewness and kurtosis, tranformation is applied
Applying a normalization method : Min-Max scores
Calculating composite indicator:
Ys= s=1,..,162
THE
ENTREPRENEURIALAND INNOVATIVE UNIVERSITY INDEX
Yasemin ASLAN, M. Selcan ZEREN KARABULUT, Sema KARABULUT, Nazl
SARIASLAN, . Furkan SRKECThe Scientific and Technological Research
Council of Turkey (TBTAK )
Department of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Atatrk
Bulvar No: 221 Kavakldere Ankara 06100 Turkey -
[email protected]
Ghent, 19-21 September 2016
SAMPLE INDICATORS
RESULTS AND IMPACT
The top 5 universities perform 1 .7 fold above the 50
universities in 2015*
* Based on the average values of the top 5 in 2015
Universities attain a 20% higher performance in 4 years**
Competition is most intense within the top 20 Last 10 universities
are putting extra effort to ent er the race
The greatest improvement was achieved in the entrepreneurship
and innovation culture, intellectu al property pool, cooperation
and interaction pillars .The top 50 universities are the ones that
are able to establish the greatest difference with the avera ge
values .
Total Ranking Points
100 1, . . 162
** Based on average values of the top 50 universities in 2012
and 2015
Number of projects and budget of industry cooperation
Number of firms founded by academicians / students / graduated
students
Employment level in the firms founded by academicians / students
/ graduated students
Technology Transfer Office (TTO) activities
Courses and education activities for entrepreneurship /
innovation given internally and externally
National / international patent applications
RDI projects and budget
Publications and citations
CONSTRUCTION OF EIUI IN THE FIRST YEAR
Finalized methodology(Data collection, qualification of data,
data validation, transformation, application of min-max
normalization, aggregation of normalized values, comparative data
analysis)
Pilot study with 16 universities Discussion with stakeholders
Performing correlation analysis among suggested
indicators
Advisory committees (High level+Technical level)TBTAK, The
Council of Higher Education, Ministry of Science, Industry and
Technology, Ministry of Development, Ministry of Finance, Small and
Medium Sized Enterprises Development Organization, Technology
Development Foundation of Turkey, Turkish Academy of Sciences,
Turkish Patent Institution, TurkStat
Developing the theoretical framework
Announcement of EIUIBy the Minister of Science, Industry and
Technology
Benchmarking
