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As the 17th biggest economy in 2018, Turkey is one of the emerging countries in the global economy. Turkey recently released an ambitious vision of becoming one of the top ten economies in the world in its centenary date, 2023, which urges a transformation of economic structures in the country. Hence, the government has introduced several change interventions to reinforce the capacity of its higher education (HE) system, widen its science and technology capacity, and tie its science and technology policies to HE. As part of these initiatives, Turkey has increased the number of universities, introduced the research university framework, and widened the Technopark policy. Although these policy interventions have contributed to Turkey’s progress toward its vision in science and technology, there is a considerable gap between its progress and the targeted accomplishments. Rather than quantitative expansion of HE system, the main concern remained around the quality of the outcomes in HE and the effectiveness of science and technology policies in accomplishing Turkey’s 2023 vision. Based on this concern, this paper aims at discussing the underlying reasons behind the gap between its targets and realized accomplishments in science and technology policies and related these reasons to Turkey’s HE policy. |
