Organized by the General Directorate of Science and Technology, "5th Technology Development Zones Summit " was held with the participation of Science, Industry and Technology Minister Faruk Özlü. Ziya Altunyaldız who is the President of the Parliamentary Industry, Trade, Energy, Natural Resources, Information and Technology Commission, Elife Unal who is Science and Technology General Director of Science Ministry of Industry and Technology, Rectors of universities, representatives of technology development zones, and many guests also participated in the summit. On behalf of our university, Rector of our university Dr. Reha Metin Alkan, Technopolis General Manager Dr. Irfan Kurtbaş and the firms located in Çorum Technocity Development Zone (TGB) also attended the program.
Minister Dr. Özlü: 'High-tech locality target is 16 percent'
"Turkey is acting in the fact that science and technology are indispensable for development. High value-added production and exports can only be realized with high technology. We have to increase the proportion of high-tech products in our exports absolutely. Today, this rate is 4 percent, we aim to increase this rate by 8 percent in the first stage and 15-16 percent in the second stage. Now we all know that the digital age has begun. Your future life will be digital life. For this reason, we are experiencing a major breakthrough in the history of mankind that technological change will bring. We have to prepare for the development of the revolution that technology will bring. We can predict what smart factories, machines, robots and artificial intelligence will bring. "
Nice competition and race
Minister Özlü stated that there is a nice competition between the Technocity Development Zones, and that this race, technology and fertility were born.
Expressing that they saw all the technopolis at the same value, Özlü said, "We never separated one from the other. said.
Özlü gave information on incentives and exemptions for TDZs in his speech.
High-tech mobilization
"Technological development level determines the competitiveness of countries. For this reason, we are organizing our industrialization policy in an integrated manner with technology and innovation. We develop our own original technologies and our domestic technical capacity. The name is literally 'high technology mobilization'. High technology mobilization is a very important part of Turkey's 2023 targets. Our business world, our universities and entrepreneurs; I invite you to participate in this campaign and contribute to this campaign. TDZs will have a very important mission in our high technology mobilization. "
Following the speech of Minister Özlü, the results of the Technology Development Regions 2016 Performance Index in 4 categories are announced. Accordingly, after the awarding of universities in general order, Minister Faruk Ozlu visited the stands of TDZs and received information about the studies.
Source: İHA, AA
