Innovation Policy Need To Survive Globalization inTurkey
RAPID INNOVATION VISION AND STRATEGIES DURING GLOBALIZATION
Several globalizations is seen in the history of mankind. Like the
immigration of people societies to hunt better and to find less hostile more
suitable grounds for settling is a kind of expansion to the world or
globalization. What was once realized during long time periods happens now at
communication speeds and bring new dimensions with it.
Perhaps the biggest globalization through the invention of machines what is
called industrial revolution took place in the period of 1850. Contrary to the expectations, the use of
machine in the production had created poverty and unemployment, caused dramatic
bitter emigration mainly from Europe to United States till 1914.
Problems experienced with relation to survive and adapt in these new
environments in the immigrating countries. On the other hand efforts to open
new employment areas in order to stop emigration what we might call the
globalization in modern terms, has been going on ever since the history of
mankind.
There is a rapid need of innovations to remedy the unemployment created by
easing the imports. It is necessary to have a “vision for innovations”
and suitable strategy in order to create new employment areas.
It is obvious that somethings are wrong or missing in our country. I cannot
see awakening, a discussion on the patent invention subjects or a serious
strategy, a vision on those matters in the public opinion to support high tech
innovations to prevent unemployment created by competition.
The endorsments of international agreements with long term protection periods of innovations considered as
“Victory of law” unfortunately serves more to the benefit of developed
countries to be richer and countries which are slow in producing innovations to be poorer. There are
methods to come out at profit from such
event that prevents our copying ability to be utilized which I suppose is like a knive that cuts
both sides. On top of it every country does not benefit equally from the
validation accredits kind of similar applications and agreements put forward by
the developed nations recently.
Europe of today has come to being because of the leaders and as a result of
farsighted measures they have introduced in technical schools, protectionalism
and in investments made during the depression years of last century. Denmark
became a wealthy nation with its agriculture, animal husbandry, furnitures,
high tech exports and Lego toys. Leaders with a vision are needed that gives
excitement, countries cannot develop towards an objective by “chicken
without head method management”
I am dreaming such a country that the laws we make are taken and copied
from us by the Europeans. We see beforehand. We are proactive.
I am tired of being a second hand
citizen in the technology. I feel I have the right reasons to rebel.
To carry on as it is today without doing anything
to change our destiny is madness. It is suicide. Because the uncontrollable impoverization and unemployment
is ever growing like a land slide. Without a hidden intent a total mobilization
in learning and relearning with easy entrance and exit to have new
proficiencies should be started urgently. Ministry of Education cannot do this.
If they could they would do it by now. Defence Ministry has very good methods.
These methods should be applied to civilian life as soon as possible. Even the
universities do not have their lights on till the mornings. This complacency
and extravagancy should end. The same person will became a wide spectrum person
with new skills and knowledge. They should receive salaries for living during
the period they are learning. This new soldiers of our globalization will be
those who are equipped with several new skills and knowledge. Denmark teaches
marine carpenters 7 years and they export furniture from the imported wood.
We can convert this upsetting crisis that we are in, to an opportunity. We
can have continuity in the “life long learning” if education can be
saved from the feeding hands of “preparatory school gnawing” monoply
system. Our opininons and vision is extensively described in the following
pages.
http://www.egetek.org/pages/projects/unisit01.html
What we can infer from the above short explanation that globalization creates unhappiness during transitory periods. The machine is invented then unemployment and immigration problems followed. We are in a kind of globalization but it cannot be said that anything is done about it. I wonder if everbody is aware of this? I wonder when a leadership will come to power that has a vision to solve problems at speed to establish coordination? Is there an alternative to the solution put forward here? If there is then what?
“The difference that should scare us” between the globalization of today and that of the past
in the countries like ours where problems are not solved, is “the rapid
problem pile up” issue.
The solutions to the problems are not produced
in the proper and irreversible way with speed and sufficiency from the time of Atatürk who had analysied
the collapse of Ottoman precisely, or the solutions are not imbibed by the
society with necassary determination. The management that will lead the country
to the right destination could not in any way be established even with what is
called “SWOT” analysis, Strenght, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats
are made. I have come to the conclusion that even this analysis is not made
properly, from my observations and the
experiences I had in my life. The religious schools was a strategical mistake
on one side, one can make a mistake it is normal but to continue with them is
unforgivable.
I want to be proud pacing towards future with an aim of being proactive in reorganizing the education system, to keep on the fight against corruption, with a philosophy to produce high tech aiming to lower the foreign exchange dependency, to create technology clusters with critical mass where synergy is created with appropriate life style i.e. proper technoparks and technology zones, where military purchases turned into local productions and to have a concept developed for many small companies to be created and nourished in this new life style.
The life style of high tech clusters and technology zones should be near the wealthy people but in such a way as “to make the rich envy” to help ease to create financial synergy.
Look:
http://www.egetek.org/pages/projects/techcorr/vision.html Especially “Life–Work–Holiday” should be in
the same attractive region so that foreign experts or academicians, persons
should wish to settle in these beautiful regions with their family and should
not need to go to other places. We must not forget that “technology has no
nationality”. Greatest products of
their time, the big cannon of 1453 during Fatih and again atom bomb of 1945
both was invented by immigrant foreigners.
If we want to derive BEFORE ALL
ELSE A LESSON from the past, for our present time related globalization issues
I suppose we should become a vision creater, a rapid problem solving society
first. I think we can make it.
Because;
Our objectives are not beyond our means. But our means are wasted. Our methods scattered and contain obstructions instead of synergy. The enemy is within. The enemy lives out of sight within us.
I shall give 3 examples;
1.The lack of vision and what we should do to increase the innovations and
patents, to search for remedies for the lack of efficiency in R&D
operations, to designate new objectives for the education system of our country
with immense educational infrastructure and education army is not utilized
fully, is heartbreaking.
It is like to have a military system not knowing
to whom to fight or not able to see the enemy. Napoleon who once said to know
your enemy victory is 50%, to know yourself is another 50%, I wonder what he
would say if he saw us? I know what the grandma would say in a similar
situation at home. There is everything but you don’t know how to cook son.
2. Look at the uncurable bureaucracy illness, unbreakable monopolies, foreign exchange dependent energy
businesses. Please see in our web pages as to what should our country do
instead of leading us towards being a captive without firing one bullet. These
suggestions are resisted with persistance.
http://www.egetek.org/pages/news.html
To make our legal system work better “twin jury”
System is explained extensively in our following web pages.
http://philippinegovantigraft.homestead.com/Cause.html
Bureaucracy illness has metastasis in the country, cure is either
insufficient or does not exist. If it goes like that the end is inevitable.
3. Huge foreign exchange dependent defense expenses which makes us
dependent to outside is lacking vision. What is being done is not adequate
enough, “No Friends” this cannot be accepted. All our means should be
planned to reduce the wastes to minumum towards a target under total civilian
mobilization. We should not find it strange as probably the future wars will be
based on the principle like they are today putting pressure on the public.
I am wondering if some difficult decisions could be taken without harming
the parlamentarian system or having objections from the European Union
according to their rules?
You may see Israel or ask information from the Embassy about Science and
Technology strategies. They have “Chief Scientist” in every Ministry. Every
step is analysied in this group before action is taken. They live in a
continuous war like situation. There is much to learn from them. They have 100
billion dollars high tech shares sold in NY stock exchange.
“People presenting a problem without its solution is that they become a part of the problem
themselves”is famous. For this reason I shall try to summarize my
proposals.
To my opinion the enemy lies in the “poverty of vision”. It lies in
the shortcomings of brave, patriotic, permanent solutions where we cannot
visualize beforehand when and what to do in this rapid change. In order to
bring a management style to go to a target without delay it is necassary to be
able to do several things at the same time, to walk while chewing a gum,
talking while walking, thinking while talking needs vision, coordination and
speed to go together. Our country today with its slow oscillating movements
gives the impression of a Parkinson patient.
Governing of our country in other words
gives the impression of a ship captain trying to steer in fog with
reduced speed. We are asking why your radars are off – he says he has forgotten
to switch on. We need captains who can go at full speed under uncertainties, to
have radar like vision to see beyond the fog.
There is no chance for success for people in the management of a country,
who says stop the world I want to get off, where 40 million youth needs food
and work, and the enemy target is moving continuously and changing
position. We shall have infinite
respect for governing people as a whole nation who takes at hand, the issues
and suggested solutions here, work day and night to succeed. Our intention is
to eat grapes, it is not to beat the grape grower.
We need to open ways to utilize the “off set funds” with exchange of 5-10%
cash to make it available for use in wind energy investments.
The vision to share at a certain system the income of the wind farms
established by making use of these funds synergically among the universities
and R&D activities is available in our web site in detail.
http://www.egetek.org/pages/projects/techcorr.html
Our universities and technical schools should become mobilized. Huge
educational investments are wasted, work is not productive, inefficient, and
disturbing. Technopark, incubator, angel capital, venture capital applications
are either inefficiently operated without expertise or does not exist at all.
We have forgotten the “Ahilik” system that existed in the years 1200 where
a young person was trained to have a profession and was taken care all the way
to the life and now we try to learn what a technopark is from the outside
countries. http://www.egetek.org/pages/16.pdf
We should expand the ideas of training to be an entrepreneur, several small
companies should be established and make them live. The methods of support of
young people with capital and knowledge is widely explained in the folowing
pages www.egetek.org but in spite of that I give conferences in
different places on the subject we could not go long distance. The distribution
of work by the military to the companies in Turkey has turned into feeding a
few companies. This old system should
be stopped and instead many small companies with little means should benefit
from this very important activity. This needs a lot of work for the military,
courage and risk taking. Control system should be very effective and
industrious to have happy results.
What to do in short?
We should not talk but act by showing with what we do by making an open
concensus that we realize we agree for civil mobilization and that we are in a
kind of war. People not supporting this idea should be declared a kind of
“persona non grata”socially. It somehow started by itself. Press and TV media
is trying to do somethings but not enough.
“Our country is poor in vision not in means”.
I salute Atatürk once more with great respect. He gave vision to the people
who had got nothing left.”People succeded the impossible”. We can do it
again.
We should say once more like he said before, “Our target is to innovate – forward” this time.
To make education widely spread and continuous, to end the education
monopolies which obstructs this philosophy, to convert defense imports to local
production rapidly with a different understanding than of today, to leave the
doors of universities and technical schools open 24 hours 7 days who are
developing brains with a radical difference using R&D. Although educational
means is the greatest asset we have one cannot see any mobilization to fight
the crisis of today, rather acting like spectators, instead of fighting with
crisis by training people who are needed with new professions, skills and new
knowledges. We are damaging the solidarity and pyschology of the education
people to work day and night from whom we expect extraordinary efforts during
these crisis.
- All
kinds of education entrances should be free. All rules and regulations
must be reviewed the ones not suitable to “this vision” should be
abolished. Our old existing education-learning system created “preparatory
schools” and under the name of “entrance examinations” a kind of “benefit
monopolies”. These monopolies should be broken down and instead
learning should be made life long “as a part of life” because time has
come for that. It is the right time to act.
- Everybody
with technical training whether it
be local or foreign whether teacher or not should be invited to duty.
Excellent systems for learning skills of the National Defence should be
widely spread.
- Governing
people should earn their trust back by economizing from the expenses.
Personnel should be reduced. Ministers and Parliament should show
leadership on these subjects.
- The
energy planning with imported raw materials should be reviewed to include
a vision to embrace farsight instead of DPT calculations made with
accountant glasses. Wind energy and other renewable energies should be
given priorities. Their wide
spread use should be promoted especially in the universities so that we can make inventions in these
new technologies.
- Wind
energy activities will prevent unemployment in wide scale, additionally
farming and animal husbandry underneath the turbines will be possible.
- “Offset”
funds should be used only on this kind of ideas where one kills 2 birds
with one stone. Because these funds are the payments to be made by
foreigners. It does not effect Turkish treasury accounts. It is also
equivalent like teaching to catch
fish instead of eating a fish, it will help to make R&D in the
universities create constant income for innovation financing and therefore
help to bring a permanent solution for the finance need of the
universities.
Ergün Özakat
10 Ekim, 2001
Tlf: +90 533 259 5160
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