Erol Taymaz

Erol is a prominent economist with specialization in economics of technology and innovation, and industrial, technology and innovation policy. He is a professor of Economics at METU and a visiting professor at Université Panthéon–Assas (Paris), Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV (Bordeaux), Universidad de Deusto (San Sebastián) and Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm).

He participated in various research projects implemented/supported by numerous organizations such as, Eurofund, ILO, UNDP, the World Bank and the EU, ERF, KDI, IDRC, FEMISE. He published papers in academic journals like Research Policy, Small Business Economics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Review of Industrial Organization, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, World Development, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Labor Economics, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Regional Studies, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Review of World Economics, and Energy Economics.

His current research interests include the design of science, technology and innovation policies, ex ante and ex post policy evaluation and impact analysis, employment and social policy, strategic planning, data science (survey design, data collection, data analysis, and visualization), statistical and econometric analysis of firm-level data, microsimulation and agent-based modelling.

He is also the founder of a research company, Maze International, at METU Technopark in Ankara.

Erol graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering (METU) in 1982. He received his M.S. degree in Economics at METU (1985), and Ph.D. degree in Economics at Case Western Reserve University, USA (1989). He worked as a Research Engineer at Aselsan Electronics Industries (Ankara, 1982-85), Research Assistant at CWRU (Cleveland, 1985-89), and Research Fellow at Industrial Research Institute (IUI, Stockholm, 1989-92).