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Sıtkı Selim Dolanay
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2185/2023.04.004
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Istanbul Topkapi University, İstanbul, Turkey
ABSTRACT
Turkey has given importance to the development of the automobile industry since the Ottoman period. While the Ottomans, who were aware of the development process of the automobile industry in the world, provided transportation by horse-drawn carriage, they thought of importing automobiles for the Sultan and high-level bureaucrats in an effort to switch to automobile transportation. However, after the proclamation of the Republic, automobile production started, just like airplanes. While a factory was established for the production of a domestic aircraft, the first automobile production facility was established in Istanbul in 1929 by the American Ford company. This factory was closed after a short time due to the world economic crisis. After the activities of the Kayseri Aircraft Factory, which lasted until 1948, came to an end, this time, Revolution car prototypes could be manufactured completely domestically in 1961. After the project, which did not go into mass production, the Koç Group started to produce the domestically-made Anadol car with technology transfer from multiple sources in 1967, but the production of Anadol continued until 1984. In 1971, Renault cars started to be produced under the French Renault license, and TOFAŞ cars under the Italian FIAT license. Towards the end of the 1970s, creative imitation applications were made in TOFAŞ cars with the bird series. In the 1990s, the production of Japanese Honda and Toyota and South Korean Hyundai cars started. In 2011, the idea of producing a domestic automobile emerged, the Devrim automobile was taken as an example in this project, the first Togg prototype was manufactured with technology transfer from multiple sources in December 2018, and it was announced that mass production would begin in March 2023. The 12-year period from 2011 to 2023 is too long for the creation of a domestic automobile. It has been understood that this long process has been passed in order to regain the pre-1980 level of technological ability. However, the most important thing is the transition from the creative imitation stage to the innovation stage. Our wish is that this process can be shortened with phase skipping approaches.
KEYWORDS
automobile industry, technology transfer, technological ability, acquisition of technology development ability, technological development, domestic automobile
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