Abstract:

Nowadays, the acceleration of knowledge-based global competition and the knowledge economy that become the key to social development requires a transformation of the economic structure of the country to the knowledge economy. How successful is this transformation or how to proceed in the transformation process has a critical importance, especially for the developing countries. In this context, by analyzing the knowledge economy performances of the Turkish Republics, their proceedings in the process of becoming an knowledge economy are examined. For this purpose, analysis was carried out utilizing the knowledge, knowledge economy, and networked readiness index that formed from the elements of the knowledge economies. As a conclusion, these countries have to cover a distance in the context of knowledge economy transformation. In order to achieve this, these countries should establish; national innovation network by knowledge-innovation production together with institutional-legal regulations for innovative entrepreneurship, educational reforms to be able to create knowledge workers with human capital for produce, use and share the knowledge, and in order to do all these they should provide knowledge and communication infrastructure and ensure dissemination of it.

Keywords: