The analysis of import and export values of Turkish furniture industry in conjunction with the number of designs, patents and trademark registrations

This study aims to determine whether there is a relationship between the import and export values of the Turkish furniture industry between 2001-2019 and the number of designs, patents (patent + utility model) and trademark registration received between 2001-2020. For this purpose, the changes in the import and export values of the furniture industry and the number of designs, patents and trademark registrations in the last 20 years have been analysed. From the necessary data has been gathered from sector and working group reports prepared by relevant institutions and the current statistics on the web pages. As a result, in this period, the export values of the furniture industry showed a significant increase trend especially in 2008, 2014 and 2019, while the import values showed a significant decreasing trend especially since 2014. In addition, the number of design registrations has started to increase significantly since 2006 and the number of trademark registrations since 2007. The number of patent registrations has not reached a significant level. These results show that Turkish furniture industry’s export values in the last 20 years and the increasing number of design registrations, patents and trademarks have followed a parallel course and there is a significant relationship between trade numbers and design protection numbers.