THE SOUTHEASTERN ANATOLİA REGİON AND THE SOUTHEASTERN

Innovation and knowledge are fundamental to the economic development, growth, and future competitiveness of our Regions. Central to strategies of enabling this must be partnership and networking, both local and global – public and private, with action leading to a solid foundation for innovation. As competition is the ultimate driver of innovation, this calls for more entrepreneurial dynamism and greater mobility of knowledge based on an effective use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to enable increased interconnectivity between knowledge workers through virtual networking. In a Knowledge Society it is humans and human capital, their vision and abilities, which are most important to the positive development of our regions, rather than the predominant physical resources and issues of the past. Empowering our people to apply their intelligence, experience and imagination to leverage data and information into a Knowledge Society, requires dynamic regional leadership, a “can do ” attitude and a holistic approach to regional development. A Regional Innovative Knowledge Society requires alternate nodes of development in various local contexts and new mechanisms such as awareness creation, access to telecommunications, education/training, finance, academic/industrial interactions and sectoral networks. This process is recognised at European level and is already happening at local level, as illustrated in Turkiye’s Southeastern Anatolia Region and elsewhere. In the first section of this study, economic innovations depending on knowledge will be presented. In the second section the efforts of Europe Union about innovations will be investigated. In the third section strategies for regional innovation knowledge society will b