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the strengths and weaknesses of the
ecosystem. Finally, it lays the groundwork
for the development of evidence-based
structural reforms to address these areas of
intervention. In this direction, we have first
established the Türkiye Global Innovation
Index Task Force. Then, we determined
the responsible institutions for the missing
or outdated data in the index, and we
started the cooperation process with the
international organizations that provide
data to the index. In order to monitor the
developments in the indicators, we have
established the Global Innovation Index
Coordination and Monitoring Platform. As a
result of the policies we have implemented,
support mechanisms and initiatives we
have initiated, our country has achieved
this historic success.”
Evaluating the Global Innovation Index
2022 Report, Minister of Trade Dr. Mehmet
Muş made the following assessment:
“Today, innovation is consolidating its
place among the main determinants of
economic growth and competitiveness
in the international arena day by day.
From the invention of agriculture and the
discovery of the wheel to the present day,
when we have smartphones in our hands
that have millions of times more powerful
operating capacity than the computers
in the control room of Apollo 11, which
carried astronauts to the moon in 1969,
mankind has always been in elbow contact
with innovation. With the beginning of
the 21st century, the innovation that
emerged in many areas such as self-driving
tools, artificial intelligence applications
and blockchain technologies, big data
applications, which we came across
in science fiction novels or films a few
decades ago, has started to rapidly shape
and transform the future of countries and
humanity. In innovation, speed is not our
enemy, on the contrary, it is our closest
friend today, where innovative ideas and
practices are faster than ever before. For
this reason, Türkiye’s reaching the place
it deserves in the world in the innovation
race is perhaps one of the guarantees of
taking firm steps forward to the future as
an existential issue. Moreover, I believe
that it has become impossible to predict
the fate of countries from now on free
from the efforts and outputs of innovation
and technological development.
The effective innovation requires a strong
innovation ecosystem that emerges
with the harmonious cooperation and
interaction of many stakeholders and
elements such as public and private
sector institutions and organizations,
universities, investors, companies,
supportive political and legal
infrastructure, resource allocation.
Here, in addition to what the public
should do, all our companies, especially
our exporter companies, Innovative a
necessity to make a technology-oriented
future planning with a perspective,
innovation I think raising awareness is a
vital issue. As a matter of fact, the fact
that we have started to reap the fruits of
our R&D studies in the defense industry
has proved to all of us how important
this field is. We, as the Ministry, always
work with our companies’ technology
and innovation we see assisting and
consulting with their focused efforts as a
necessity beyond satisfaction.
When we look at the patent application
data of the World Intellectual Property
Rights Organization, we see that there
is a positive trend in Türkiye’s patent
applications and that approximately 10
thousand patent applications have been
filed annually in recent years. I believe
that technology and innovation with
the further increase of focused business
culture and awareness, our country will
rise to much higher ranks in the world
in both our R&D expenditures and
international patent applications and
acceptances.”
TİM Chairman Mustafa Gültepe, who
participated in the introductory meeting
of the Global Innovation Index 2022
with a video message, said that they
lead exporters to adapt to the digital age
with innovation. Emphasizing Türkiye’s
success in innovation, TİM Chairman
Gültepe continued:
“Under the leadership of Mr. President,
with the support of our Ministries and
the contributions of our institutions
in the task force, we rose 10 places
to 41st in the index in 2021. Last
year, we also broke the record in the
history of the Republic by reaching
225 billion dollars in exports. With
TİM’s efforts towards the innovation
and entrepreneurship ecosystem and
the increasing competitiveness of our
companies, Türkiye continued its rise this
year. In 2022, we broke the record of 15
years in which the index was published
and reached the highest position in our
history with the 37th place. Innovationoriented
growth will increase the
competitiveness of our exporters and
enable them to find a stronger place in
global trade.
Within the scope of the Investment
Environment Improvement Coordination
Board (YOIKK) Action Plan, the “Global
Innovation Index Action Plan” studies
were launched in 2020. At the meeting
held under the chairmanship of Vice
President Fuat Oktay on June 30, 2020, it
was decided to establish a task force to
accelerate the work to increase Türkiye’s
position in the Global Innovation Index.
Global Innovation Index Türkiye Action
Plan and Strategy (2021-2023) was
prepared. The strategy document, which
was prepared with the coordination of
the Ministry of Industry and Technology,
the TİM Secretariat and the contributions
of 20 different public institutions and
organizations, will be presented to WIPO
Director Daren Tang this year.
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