Assessment of Researcher Productivity in the Field of Health

Authors : Gülay Ekinci, Aysun Danayiyen, Hakan Köse

Pages : 305-319

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Publication Date : 2024-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Official documents showing the ownership of technical inventions obtained using scientific methodologies are called medical patents. While patents give special rights to the researchers they own, they play an important role in promoting innovation. In this context, the study was carried out to determine the relationship between the number of researchers in the field of health and the number of medical patents. In the analysis, the relationship between the number of male and female researchers in the health field and the number of patent applications in the medical field was analyzed with the panel data method. For this study, 9 countries with regular data on the number of full-time researchers (Male= MRD and Female=FRD) working in the field of health by gender between 2005-2018 were determined. These countries are Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Romania and Chinese Taipei. In the number of medical patents (Mpatent), the number of medical patent applications made within the scope of PCT belonging to selected countries were included in the analysis. Statistical analysis was performed using Eviews 10 Statistics program. Ethical approval was not obtained as the data used in the study were publicly available data. According to the basic findings obtained from the analysis; i) According to Granger causality analysis, the directional causality relationship from MPatent to FRD-MRD ii) the directional causality relationship from FRD to MRD; iii) the results of the panel cointegration tests confirmed the existence of a long-term relationship between MPatent to FRD-MRD iii) The LS coefficient estimation results indicated that FRD-MRD had positive effects on MPatent; a one-unit increased in MRD numbers increased the MPatent number by 0.0084; a one-unit increase in the FRD number increased the MPatent numbers by 0.01058. iv) Variance selection model showed the positive effects of FRD-MRD on MPatent. Empirical evidence of this study evaluating the relationship between MRD, FRD and Mpatent revealed significant and long-term relationships between MRD, FRD and Mpatent.
Keywords : Medikal Patent, Sağlık Sektörü, Araştırmacı, Tam Zamanlı Çalışan.