R&D 250

Although Covid-19, which affected the entire world as a whole, has made 2020 a lost period in many areas of life, the “R&D 250, Turkey's Highest R&D Spending Companies” research prepared by Turkishtime with great devotion and accuracy revealed that companies know no boundaries in their R&D studies. According to the research, the company that had the highest R&D spending in 2020 was ASELSAN with 3 billion and 356 million liras. The research showed that top 500 companies had a total spending of 16 billion 995 million TL in R&D, and TUSAŞ and TOFAŞ, alongside ASELSAN, were the top three companies.

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In their eighth “Turkish R&D Research” conducted this year, Turkishtime, the Portal for Economy and Business, revealed where Turkey has arrived at in its journey towards value-added products, and the top 500 participating companies increased their R&D expenditure to 16 billion and 995 million TL. As serious strides are made regarding R&D studies in Turkey in the past years, the “Turkish R&D Research” initiated by the Portal for Economy and Business Turkishtime in 2013 was one of the most important moves that helped this cause. The study involved thousands of companies to this day and has taken another step towards their vision of “creating a memory for R&D in Turkey”.

While serious steps have been taken regarding R&D studies in Turkey in recent years, the "Turkey R&D 250 Research" initiated by the Economy and Business Portal Turkishtime in 2013 was one of the most important moves that served this purpose. As it enters its eighth year, the research, in which thousands of companies have been involved, added another stone to the vision of "creating the R&D memory in Turkey".

Despite the decline in Turkey’s economic graphs in 2020 during the shadow of the pandemic, the top 500 companies that were the subject of the research displayed a stronger performance in R&D compared to 2019.

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