CV

Research interests

  • Technology, innovation and development
  • Industrial policy, technology policy, enterprise policy
  • Regulation and competition policy
  • Policy evaluation
  • Industrial dynamics
  • Entrepreneurship and small business economics
  • Education and training
  • Labor demand and flexibility
  • Evolutionary economics
  • Micro-simulation modeling

Education

Experience

Awards and scholarships

  • 1998 Research and Encouragement Award, Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA)
  • 1994 Research and Encouragement Award, METU Mustafa Parlar Research and Education Foundation
  • 1989 Graduate Alumni Award, Case Western Reserve University
  • 1978 Young Scientist Scholarship, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey
  • 1975 Young Scientist Scholarship, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey

Courses taught

  • ECO 280 Engineering Economics
  • ECON 353 International Economics I
  • ECON 411 Economics of Networks and the Internet
  • ECON 413 Introduction to Data Science
  • ECON 444 Economics of Innovation
  • ECON 448 Technology and Industrial Dynamics
  • ECON 451 Industrial Economics
  • ECON 498 Labor Economics
  • ECON 651 Advanced Industrial Organization
  • ECON 683 Applied Econometrics I
  • ECON 691 Economics of Technology Policy
  • ECON 692 Evolutionary Economics

Professional activities