TEKPOL grants a totally different understanding into the economic, social and political factors that drive technological change and innovation. Our Centre's research and training programmes charges an extensive domain constructed upon crucial policy questions aimed to the national and international regulations of science, technology and innovation, with a particular focus on the networks of inter-organizational relations on the side of knowledge management issues.

In the course of history, less than 30 nations have become rich and still more than 80 per cent of the world population lives in the middle and low-income countries, some of them in extreme poverty. It is true not only for the majority of economies traditionally considered as ‘developing countries', but also for the new, post-socialist emerging markets. Our aim is also to research the contribution to sustained and rapid economic growth over the long term. Narrated in such a manner, we also make research for a better understanding of how knowledge is created and how it may foster the production and moreover, we research for the effects how innovation occurs and how new technologies are created and diffused.

Examining the strategies that may further develop capabilities to take the current wave of globalization advantage by constructing faster growth policy options for developing countries, hence containing the existing development gaps, our reseach focuses on the evolving economic, political, regional and cultural landscape in time as how knowledge production and learning processes can be managed in the locus of systemic arrangements and development strategies that might lead to our objectives of achieving sustainable economic growth targets.

Finally, we may summarize that our Centre's research and policy coincides with the fullfillment of the governmental economic and social policy research agendas, public and private research institutions, the private sector, civil society organizations and other actors in the creation and diffusion of innnovation culture and knowledge to construct a sustainable economic development policy.