“Innovation and Technological Competitiveness” has been discussed during online events of the TÜSİAD – Sabancı University Competitiveness Forum (REF).
The online meeting held on Friday, April 30, 2021 was attended by Fatih Kemal Ebiçlioğlu, TÜSİAD Board Member and Industrial Policies Roundtable Chair, Esra Durceylan Kaygusuz, Director of TÜSİAD-Sabancı University Competitiveness Forum and member of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Ufuk Akçiğit, member of faculty at the Economics Department of Chicago University.
During his opening speech, Fatih Kemal Ebiçlioğlu stated that the World Economic Forum attached growing importance to technological competitiveness and innovation in the light of the Global Competitiveness Index. He added, “Among the fundamental components of the index, technology and innovation have become top priorities of companies of any scale in nearly all sectors, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s the reason why we are focusing on technological competitiveness and innovation in the first online event of REF, which works to enable our country’s private sector to increase its share in international markets in a stable and sustainable way and to strengthen its competitiveness.”
After the opening speech, Esra Durceylan Kaygusuz, Director of REF, which acts as the Turkish partner of the World Economic Forum for the preparation of the annual Global Competitiveness Index, provided information to the participants about the “Executive Opinion Survey”, which provides some of the inputs to the index, and this year’s Global Competitiveness Report.
During the first online event of REF, the questions in the “Executive Opinion Survey” about innovation and technological competitiveness were further elaborated on with the assessments of the participants. Professor Ufuk Akçiğit from Chicago University moderated the session on “The Executive Opinion Survey and Assessments” in which the assessments were received in real time and online.
You can watch a video recording of the event by clicking the link below.
World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report 2020 (English)