Track: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Abstract

In line with the changes in higher education policy in Turkey, the number of universities in Turkey has considerably increased in the last decade. In this competitive environment, Turkey’s Scientific and Technological Research Institution (TÜBİTAK) has started to rank the universities using several academic measures such number of publications, number of cited articles, number of students (PhD), number of patent applications/grants and etc. In this work, we want to show how these academic performance indicators are affected from the experience of universities. We list the establishment years of the universities and calculate an age for each of the Turkish universities. Subsequently, we investigate how the performance indicators are correlated with the age of universities. As result, we show that the experience (age) is quite correlated with many of the indicators such as: total number of publications, total number of citations, number of projects completed however it is not the only factor to explain all variability in these measures.