Özet:

The aim of this research is to explore the relationship between the economic development of Turkey and human and technological investments. Economic development is assessed through the National Assembly GSMH, technological investments Research and Development expenditure, and human capital elements in higher education have been treated as graduate numbers with the amount of expenditure per student. The research is designed in the relative scanning model to study the intrusive relationships between these variables. The data set of the research, for the expenditure of GSMH and RGe, the Turkish Statistical Authority, for the expenditure per student in higher education, the Ministry of National Education and the Higher Education Council, YÖK and the number of graduates in higher education, is included in the data between 1997-2018 provided by YÖK. On the data set, regression analyses have been carried out to determine the relations between GSMH and R&D spending, student per student spending in higher education and graduate numbers. The results of the analysis showed that the main contributor of GSMH is R&D spending and that the amount of spending per student in higher education is also a significant contributor. On the other hand, although the number of higher education graduates does not make a significant contribution to GSMH, it generally negatively reflects economic development. The achieved results clearly show the importance of investment in technological production for economic development. Furthermore, in order to create better opportunities for students’ qualification development in the higher education process, increased student-per-student expenditures appear to be more important than the number of higher education graduates for economic development. Finally, it can be said that the steps taken to increase the number of students to be enrolled in higher education programs that lead to the labour force that will lead to technological production should be extended.

Özet:

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between economic development and human and technological investment in Turkey. While economic development was evaluated through Gross Domestic Product GDP , technological investment matched Research and Development R&D investment. Human capital components were also linked to higher education HE spending per student and the number of higher education graduates. To examine the predictive relations between these variables, this research was designed in a correlational survey model. For 1997-2018 period, GDP and R&D investment data were accessed from TurkStat, HE spending per student data were calculated using the data of Ministry of Education and of the Council of HE, Turkey, and the number of HE graduates was gathered from the official statistics of the Council of HE, Turkey. The relationship between GDP and R&D investment, HE spending per student, and the number of HE graduates were then examined by regression analysis. The analysis showed that the amount of R&D investment was the most important predictor of GDP while HE spending per student was another significant predictor. On the other hand, although the number of HE graduates had no considerable contribution to the GDP, it generally reflected negatively on economic development. The results clearly reveal the importance of investments regarding technological production for economic development. In addition, it seems that the increase in HE spending per student, to create better opportunities for the quality development of students, is more important than the number of HE graduates for economic development. It can be also said that the initiatives to increase student registrations in HE programs which are the source of the labour force giving direction to technological production should be expanded.

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