The world's technology export race is heating up! Turkey's technology export journey

The technological competition that escalated between the United States and Germany during World War II, and between Russia and the United States during the Cold War, continues at full speed today. The prominent actor in this period is China . The ones positioned against it are the United States and Western countries.

CHINA'S MOVE SHAKES US STOCK MARKETS

So much so that Donald Trump , who sat in the presidential seat in the White House on January 20, took commercial steps by targeting the Beijing administration. Then he announced that he would invest $500 billion in artificial intelligence technologies. Then came the Deepseek move from China. After the movement in the markets, US-based technology companies were hit hard. The American stock market lost $1 trillion in value.

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COUNTRIES ARE POSITIONING

The result of the competition between the US and China has also brought to light the fact that qualified technology has become one of the most decisive actors of economic, political and social developments in history. As such, countries position their policies aimed at increasing R&D and innovation capacity at the center of the economy.

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TURKEY'S JOURNEY

Turkey is one of them. With the projects implemented step by step in the fields of R&D and innovation, Turkey has made significant progress in both qualified manufacturing and qualified technology exports. The figures clearly show this. Turkey, whose high-tech exports were 1.9 billion dollars in 2010, ranked 42nd among 140 countries. In 2023, it increased its performance in this area to 8.5 billion dollars and rose to 35th place. With this stage, it left behind countries such as Finland , Brazil , Norway , Australia and Portugal , which were above it in 2010.