Presentation on new R&D reform package

1. REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
R&D REFORM PACKAGE
Law on Supporting Research and Development Activities and Law Amending
Several Decree Laws (6676)
26 FEBRUARY 2016

2. 2023
R&D TARGETS

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4. OBJECTIVES OF THE R&D
AND INNOVATION
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1. To support design activities
2. To promote R&D investments
To ensure transition to qualified production,
To ensure the production of high value added products
3. To promote the employment and enhance the
qualifications of R&D personnel
4. To commercialize R&D activities; to support and reveal the
potential of technology companies
5. To develop and institutionalize university-industry
collaboration
6. To ensure efficient coordination of R&D and innovation
support mechanism and to empower the ecosystem

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Ensuring that Design Centers benefit from
the support mechanisms and exemptions
offered to R&D Centers
Including the design activities carried out in
Technology Development Zones in the
support and exemption scheme

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In addition to the R&D and design
companies, SMEs with R&D and
design work demands shall also benefit
from tax deduction

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Council of Ministers is authorized
to increase the amount up to %100

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Reducing the number of overall R&D
personnel especially in high – tech
sectors, which is necessary to establish
an R&D Center, from 30 to 15

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Of the salaries paid to the graduates
of fundamental sciences, who shall
be employed in R&D centers; an
amount equal to gross minimum
wage shall be covered by the
government for two years

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Providing tax support mechanisms
and grants to Pre-Competition
Projects so as to promote joint
projects among companies

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Imposing Customs Tax Exemption
on products, which are supplied from
abroad within the scope of R&D,
innovation and design projects and
hence shortening the duration and
costs of the Project

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Establishing Thematic Technology Development
Zones in priority and strategic sectors and hence
building focus R&D infrastructure
Determination of maximum rates of rents at
Technology Development Zones by the Ministry

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Including the time spent in projects and
post graduate studies of the personnel
who are working at Technology
Development Zones/R&D and Design
Centers in the exemption scheme

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Increasing the income tax exemption rates
applied for the R&D and Design personnel
Facilitating the employment of foreign R&D
and design personnel to be employed in
Technology Development Zones and R&D and
Design Centers

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Introducing tax deduction to companies, which
provide direct entrepreneurship capital to
companies which are
•are located at Technology Development
Zones
•are established through
Technoentrepreneurship Capital Support

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Increasing the Techno-entrepreneurship
Capital Support, which is 100.000 TL, up to
500.000 TL
Increasing the application deadline following
the graduation from 5 years to 10 years

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Introducing a certification system and
determining standards for IT
companies to ensure the
development of secure and quality
software

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About the income received by the academicians who
are engaged in University-Industry Collaboration
activities;
•Income tax and stamp duty shall not be
deducted,
•85% shall be paid to the academician,
•Fees paid to referees evaluating the R&D
projects shall be increased

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Academicians
Design Center
R&D Center
Part time or Full time
Ensuring that the academicians shall be able to work part time or full time at
R&D and Design Centers
Excluding the revenues they acquire from the Revolving Fund as it is
the case in Technology Development Zones

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Ensuring that students, which receive
TÜBİTAK scholarship, also benefit from
the scholarships offered by Directorate
General of Credits and Dormitories
Agency

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Enhancing the scope of «Technological Product Experience Document» which
substitutes the «experience/work completion document»
New
Product
• Technology
Center
R&D Centers
New
Product
New
Product
New
Product
• Public – funded
R&D projects
• Pre – competition
Cooperation Projects
TPED
Document • Products developed
through R&D
carried
out by own
resources
• Products developed
through R&D in
Technology
Development Zones
Experience
Document
in Public
Tenders

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REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY