APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY POLICIES IN TURKEY

Authors : Hatice Ozkurt Cokgungor

Pages : 148-157

Doi:10.17261/Pressacademia.2017.530

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Publication Date : 2017-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In the global world, the topic requiring development in technology has a great importance.  Countries present very different perspectives in terms of the capacity of producing and obtaining technology. A lot of factors such as geographical position, cultural structure, educational system of the countries lie behind these differences. Technology policies of a country at macro level affect economic growth, efficiency, employment, intercountry income distribution, foreign trade and cyclical fluctuates and economic policy while effects of the same at micro level appear in cost and price structure. Technology policies play an effective role in educational system, understanding of society, social structure, tradition of industry and advanced technology use and habits of production and experience of all of them and a lot of other parameters. Besides, the technology policies applied in Turkey are very important for the activation of the current values. The concept of competition based on producing more consistent policies, accelerating, and with respect to this, rapid technological development for the future from the inferences to be made by examining the policies applied is gaining a new dimension, and the concept of competition based on cheap labor and natural resources is substituted by production technologies competitive in international markets. Turkey, by closely following the developments regarding technology within the country or in the world, should be able to readjust its technology policy depending on the developments and also provide its technology policies to be forward looking, long and stable. The objective of the study is to reveal how the technological progress will be possible with the progressions in the subtopics to be determined by means of the analysis of the concepts regarding technology and detection of their importance.   
Keywords : Technology, technology policies, Turkey