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Knowledge and Innovation Economy: an Evaluation of Turkey

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Mankind has reached the current level of civilization of our era and economic order through three different transformations and economic experiences. Production, work and life styles have been differentiated with every transformation and experience in society. The first of these transformations was agricultural transformation and this period is known as agricultural economy. The second transformation was the change to an industrial economy which established automized production. The third one is the transformation based on knowledge, technology and innovation.

Intensive cognitive effort has been made in order to name this last transformation through which civilization has changed totally. The changes of the 21st century become more evident day by day. This last circumstance which we are currently experiencing has been known by various names such as the third wave, the post‐industrial period, and post capitalism by different philosophers, among them Brzezinski’s technocratic era definition which exhibits a different angle. Naming this period knowledge based economy or knowledge economy has become a scientific approach.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey

    Prof. Dr. Fehim Bakırcı

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  1. Atatürk Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Yakutiye/Erzurum, Turkey

    Fehim Bakırcı

  2. FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management , Essen, Germany

    Thomas Heupel

  3. FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management, Nürnberg, Germany

    Orhan Kocagöz

  4. Atatürk Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Yakutiye/Erzurum, Turkey

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Bakırcı, F. (2018). Knowledge and Innovation Economy: an Evaluation of Turkey. In: Bakırcı, F., Heupel, T., Kocagöz, O., Özen, Ü. (eds) German-Turkish Perspectives on IT and Innovation Management. FOM-Edition(). Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16962-6_2

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