EU report: "Turkey shows the fourth-highest R&D growth rate şn Europe"

Though Turkey is below the European Union average in research and development expenditures, the gap is closing fast, with a significant increase over the last decade, according to a new EU report. Over the period 2000-2009, gross domestic expenditures on R&D in Turkey saw an average annual growth rate of 10.1%, which is the fourth-highest growth rate in Europe, said the 2011 Competition Report of the European Commission's Innovation Union.