High Technology Policy In The European Union

Abstract

Technological progress and digital transformation have created new competitive conditions for the global economy. This development process, which is named as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, provides important opportunities for humanity and causes the change of all balances and the reshaping of competition conditions at the level of countries. European Union countries aimed to establish a common market for the community, develop economic activities within the community, strengthen stability and improve the standard of living. The European Union follows common policies in many areas such as agriculture, industry, competition and foreign trade. Against the new world order emerging with the rapidly developing technology, the European Union has started to need to strengthen its economic and social structure and increase its competitiveness. In this study, the current high technology policy of the European Union is tried to be examined in outline. In the first section, it deals with the concept of high technology. In the second section, high technology investments in the European Union are evaluated. In the third section, the goals of the high technology policy of the European Union and the tools used to achieve these goals are discussed. In this context, Lisbon strategy, R&D policies, Europe 2020 strategy as well as Framework Programs are evaluated. In addition, entrepreneurship policy and, in this context, policies applied to improve the environment for small and medium enterprises in the high technology of the European Union are discussed.