4691 Technology Development Area Law

The technology development zones law has been published in the Official Gazette in Turkey on 6 July 2001. The purpose of this law is to generate technological information in order to provide the national industry with an internationally competitive and export-oriented structure, to introduce innovations in products and production methods, to raise the quality or standard of products, to increase productivity, to decrease the costs of production, to commercialize technological knowledge, to support technology intensive production and entrepreneurship, to enable small and medium-sized enterprises to adapt to new and advanced technologies, to create investment opportunities in technology intensive areas by taking into account the decisions of Supreme Council of Science and Technology, to create job opportunities for researchers and qualified persons, to assist technology transfer and to provide the technological infrastructure which will accelerate the entry of the foreign capital which, in turn, will provide high/advanced technology.