Abstract:

High technology exports are very important for countries to develop economically and to gain an international competitive advantage. In order to increase the economic growth of developing countries, it is an issue that needs to be focused on high technology exports. Therefore, it is necessary to reveal the factors affecting high technology exports and high technology exports. Therefore, the study aims to determine the location of Turkey among European Union member countries in terms of the high-tech exports and the importance of the factors affecting the level of high-tech exports in Turkey. First, between the years 2007-2018 the European Union countries and Turkey's high-tech export data were obtained. Turkey's location has been determined among European union countries by performing time series clustering analysis to these data. Then, for Turkey significance level of factors affecting high-tech exports was determined using artificial neural networks.

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