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The increasing pressure of competition in a globalizing world forces the countries that aim to grow rapidly to strengthen their market shares. This requires technological innovations, and scientific knowledge, which is their primary source. In this respect, the main aim of the study is to examine the effects of international technology spillover channels on the innovation performance of firms operating in the Turkish manufacturing industry and to reveal whether this effect shows significant differences with respect to sectoral technology intensity. For the aim of the study, the data of 311 firms covering the period of 2011-2015 were provided by TURKSTAT. The results obtained based on the SGMM estimator show that the technology absorptive capacity of firms operating only in high-technology-intensive industries have a strong positive and significant effect on the innovation performance. In addition, the results of the study show that Foreign Direct Investment has a stronger positive and significant effect on the innovation performance of firms operating in low-technology-intensive sectors than firms operating in high-tech-intensive sectors. Moreover, export activities have almost the same positive and significant effect on the innovation performance of firms in high and low technology intensive sectors. On the other hand, technology transfer expenditures have a positive and significant effect on the new product sales only for firms operating in high technology intensive sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]