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R&D, innovation and information-based activities has become more important in recent years for regional development and elimination of regional development differences. Countries have also recognized that innovation is the most important factor of economic growth and begun to allocate more resource to R&D investments. In this study, for years of 2010, 2011 and 2012 the innovation performance of 12 regions sited at first level of Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics (NUTS) in Turkey, have been evaluated by taking basic R&D and innovation indicators into consideration. In this context regression analysis, DEMATEL-Based Analytic Network Process (DANP) and TOPSIS methods have been applied. The criteria have been weighted by using the regression coefficients obtained through regression analysis in DEMATEL method and subsequently performance ranking of regions has been performed by TOPSIS method.