Centre for Innovation & Structural Change (CISC)

Öner Tulum

Öner Tulum

B.S. Economics, M.A. Regional Economic and Social Development

oner.tulumnuigalway.ie

Room 372, J.E. Cairnes Graduate School of Business & Public Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway

+353 (0) 91 495456

Oner Tulum joined CISC as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in July 2007.

He worked as a research assistant and economic researcher at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell where he received his Master of Arts in Regional Economic and Social Development prior to joining CISC. Before that he worked as a market analyst in a leading security and investment firm in Turkey with the completion of his Bachelor of Science in economics at Anadolu University in Turkey. Oner Tulum is interested in studying the industrial development and regional competitiveness of high technology sectors in particular Life Sciences and ICT sector groups. He aims to analyze the sectors by building datasets that allow him to identify sub segments of those unique and complex sectors, and study their relationships within peer groups and regions.  His research also intends to explore the policies that have significant impacts on regions’ industrial competitiveness as well as exploring the impacts of those policies on the labor force and consumers.  In addition, he is interested in studying the economic effects of technological and innovative farming practices and policies geared toward productivity improvement in the agriculture industry. 

Currently he is working on Project Lucerna, which aims to identify the developing high technology clusters as well as study the evolutionary process of those clusters in the Republic of Ireland.  As a Transfer of Knowledge (TOK) activity, the grant for Lucerna is provided by the Marie Curie Action Fellowship Program. He is also currently involved in a project examining the relationships of major Biotechnology regions in the U.S. and E.U.